 Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire;...  Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer - Sida 4efter Charles Sotheran - 1876 - 51 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 sidor
...sincerely astonished at its manifestations; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration;...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. THOMAS CARLYLE. (1795-1881.) X. GOETHE. The brief account here given of the work of Goethe was... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 sidor
...far-reaching influence. " Poets," he declares, in the closing passage of his impassioned Defence, " are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...moves. Poets, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." With Arnold and Lowell and Browning poetry has this same vital quality, this direct bearing... | |
 | James Thomson - 1896 - 502 sidor
...divinity in man. . . . " Poets are the hierophanls of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present;...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." So clear and perfect is the unequalled lyrist's response to the ideal philosopher, athwart... | |
 | James Thomson - 1896 - 692 sidor
...divinity in man. . . . " Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." So clear and perfect is the unequalled lyrist's response to the ideal philosopher, athwart... | |
 | 1917 - 884 sidor
...it, and now it is ours we are ready to acknowledge that we have not deserved it. If, as Shelley says, "poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration,...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present," that is equally true of the men from whose hearts and under whose hands the Empire grew. They builded... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1900 - 468 sidor
...among mankind." What he believed true poets are he told in a familiar . . passage of his prose — " the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the...which express what they understand not; the trumpets that sing to battle and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves."... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1900 - 460 sidor
...futurity casts upon the present ; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets that sing to battle and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves." One hundred years have passed since he was born, and two generations have been buried since his ashes... | |
 | Cuyler Reynolds - 1902 - 504 sidor
...very existence must, I conceive, be lost, in the overwhelming realities of futurity. COI/TON, Lacon. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. SHEU.EY, Defence of Poetry. lawyer—Xegal—3ustice Arguments very seldom convince. ELBBRT HUBBARD,... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 sidor
...grandenr rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. Queen Mab. i«, Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration;...the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.1 A Defence of Poetry. J. HOWARD PAYNE. 1792-1852. 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 sidor
...grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. Queen Mab. a. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.1 A Defence of Poetry J. HOWARD PAYNE. 1792-1852. 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may... | |
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