 Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry...  The New-York Review - Sida 17redigerad av - 1839Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1892 - 890 sidor
...and science. " Poetry," he wrote in the preface to the second edition of the " Lyrical Ballads," " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...expression which is in the countenance of all science. . . . If the labors of men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 sidor
...Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...hath said of man, ' that he looks before and after. ' He is the rock of defence for human nature ; an upholder and preserver, carrying every where with... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 sidor
...Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakspeare hath raid of man, 1 that he looks before and after. ' He is the rock of defence for human nature ; an upholder... | |
 | 1845 - 572 sidor
...ungentle apathy, or of insensibility to the practical claims of life. For poetry, it has been well said, is the ' impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science,' and the apparent absence of connexion between high things and low disappears before the faculty which... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 sidor
...poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...science. Emphatically may it be said of the poet, as Shakspere hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human nature;... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 sidor
...Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence for human nature ; an upholder and preserver, carrying every where with him... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 sidor
...which all human In'ings juin wilh him, rejoices in tile presence of (ruth as our visible friend und hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit...hath said of man, ' that he looks before and after. ' He is the rock of defence for human nature; an upholder and preserver, carrying every wherfc with... | |
 | John Wright - 1853 - 144 sidor
...little lustre on his indomitable courage. Not inconsiderately, then, was it said by Wordsworth, that " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science." And once more recurring to the subject of astronomy, with a conviction that poetry * Joanna Baillie.... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 sidor
...singing a song in which man beings join with him, rejoices in tho presence of truth as our visible and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; »k~ j—™, Cloned expression which is in the countenance of all science, Emphaticnlly... | |
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