 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
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 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 of human nature, — an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere with... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1857 - 624 pages
...Poetry," says Wordsworth — and we shall venture to include within the term the arts in general — " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge,...expression which is in the countenance of all science." " Every great poet," he likewise maintains, and therefore we would say, every great poet-artist, "... | |
 | England - 1857 - 820 pages
...Poetry," says Wordsworth — and we shall venture to include within the term the arts in general — " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science." " Every great poet," he likewise maintains, and therefore we would say, every great poet-artist, "... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1858 - 516 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...knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the 16* We fear, however, that the causes of this general dislike to Wordsworth lie deeper. We apprehend... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1859 - 384 pages
...which all human beings join with z -tj him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visi"^ ;, ble friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the J) impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 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 of human nature, — an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere with... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 322 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 Shakspearc hath said of man, 'that he looks before and after.' He is the rock of defence of human nature,... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Commonplace-books - 1863 - 254 pages
...which all human beings join with him, rejoiceth in the presence of truth as a visible friend, and an hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit...expression which is in the countenance of all science. The poet carrieth everywhere with him, relationship and love. In spite of the difference of soil and... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...power of poetry. This must be that which Wordsworth himself means when, in his preface, lie Bays that " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science." And it is "the vital soul" in the poet which penetrates into this, and reads it off for other men.... | |
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