 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 - Page 171839Full view - About this book
 | John Lancaster Spalding - 1890 - 236 pages
...and consequently thought made beautiful, attractive, contagious. It is, to quote Wordsworth, " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the...expression which is in the countenance of all science." The poet has more enthusiasm and tenderness than other men, a more sensitive soul, a more comprehensive... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - 1891 - 312 pages
...the ever important and universally beautiful " ; Wordsworth may say, " Poetry is the breath and fine spirit of all knowledge, it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science " ; Coleridge may say, " Poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1891 - 100 pages
...with poetry, — and here I return to the point with which I started. " Poetry," says Wordsworth, " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression in the face of all science." If he be not endowed with any large measure of that " finer spirit," the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 214 pages
...all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly 15 companion. (Poetry is the breath and finer spirit...Science,/ Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, 'that he looks before and after?1 He is the rock of defence for 20 human... | |
 | 1892 - 960 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1892 - 954 pages
...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 labours of men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1893 - 394 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 286 pages
...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 Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence for human... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 pages
...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 Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence for human... | |
 | Neville McMorris - 1989 - 276 pages
...position goes beyond Voltaire's. Wordsworth's equally famous effusion can be interpreted similarly: "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all Science."29 This opinion of Wordsworth's was arrived at from the bleak view... | |
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