| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...the rose to the texture of the elements which compose it, as the form and splendour of unfaded beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption. What were...light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar? . Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 pages
...the rose to the texture of the elements which compose it, as the form and splendour of unfaded beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption. What were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship,—what were the scenery of this beautiful universe which we inhabit; what were our consolations... | |
| 1896 - 854 pages
...when God himself "saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good." "What," asks Shelley, "were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship,— what...light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar?" Whom has not poetry rescued from his "own spirit's... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 246 pages
...the rose to the texture of the elements which compose it, as the form and splendour of unfaded beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption. What were...light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...compose it, as the form and splendour of unfaded beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption. Г What were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship —...and /what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry dUJButuascend_ta bring light and fire fronTthose eternal regions where the owl-wmged faculty of calculation... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...tbe elements which compose it, as the form and splendour of unfaded beauty to the secreta of anatrjmr and corruption. What were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship — what were the scenery of thä beautiful universe which we inhabit ; what were our consolations on this side of the grave1 —... | |
| William H. Jones - 1855 - 280 pages
...internal laws of human nature ; the body has then become too unwieldy for that which animates it.1 What were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship, —...consolations on this side of the grave, — and what our aspirations beyond it,' — if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...patriotism, friendship ? what were the scenery of * Charming. this beautiful universe which we inhabit, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar?" To enumerate its results thus is to praise sufficiently,... | |
| Mrs. E. N. Gladding - 1858 - 258 pages
...The body has then become too unwieldy for that which animates it." "What would our aspirations be, if poetry did not ascend to bring light and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar?" But where am I going? Thou art indeed a blessed... | |
| 1915 - 826 pages
...the elements which compose it ; as the form and splendour of unfaded beauty to the secrets of amatory and corruption. What were virtue, love, patriotism,...: what were the scenery of this beautiful universe we inhabit ; what were our consolations on this side of the grave ; and what were our aspirations beyond... | |
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