 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time. Not that I assert poets to be prophets in the gross sense of the word, or... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 368 pages
...is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time. Not that I assert poets to be prophets in the gross sense of the word, or... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 572 pages
...admirer of the poet should be according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of flower, and the fruit of latest time. The moat unfailing Herald, companion and follower of the awakening... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...1 and discovers those laws according to which preJ sent things ought to be ordered, but he beholdá the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest timeM Not that I assert poets to be prophets in the gross sense of the word, or... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...beh.iH« the future in the present, and his thoughts anthe germs of the flower and the fruit of Ысч time. Not that I assert poets to be prophets in the gross sense of the word, or that they oui foretell the fonn as surely as they foreknoj* tbv spirit of events : such is the pretence of sopprstition,... | |
 | Literature - 1848 - 578 pages
...Thus he not only," as Shelley truly observes, " beholds the present intensely as it is, but discovers the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time." Nor is he merely the expounder of nature and of life : to him it is also... | |
 | Irish literature - 1857 - 866 pages
...is, and discovers those laws, according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of flower, and the fruit of latest time. The most unfailing herald, companion and follower of the awaliening... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prose literature - 1880 - 444 pages
...is, and diseovei-s those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time. Not that I assert poets to be prophets in the gross sense of the word, or... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the tiower and the fruit of latest time. Not that I assert poets to be prophets in the gross sense of the... | |
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For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time. 
