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" His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as a spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable thought; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor. "
Shelley's Process: Radical Transference and the Development of His Major Works - Page 3
by Jerrold E. Hogle - 1989 - 432 pages
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Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 246 pages
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawD, and the imnost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem is a fountain for ever...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...conductor. All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acoiiij.jYJjlêlicantamed all oaks potentially. Veil after v.eil may.bejindrawn, and the imnost naked...
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A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice

M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...reverence, not only for the creative soul, but for its manifestation through his fellow-man." — Ibid. " All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn...contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be withdrawn, and the inmost beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1877 - 536 pages
...this one extract : " His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is aa a spark, a burning 3torn of inextinguishable thought ; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with a i'-il-iniinj which has yet found no conductor." Nowhere in this essay does he speak of Shakespeare...
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First ..., Volume 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 516 pages
...sufficient to shew that he at all events is one of the sons of light, let me add this one extract : " His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with a liyhtniny which has yet found no conductor." Nowhere in this essay does he speak of Shakespeare with...
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, how First ..., Volume 7

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with u lightning which has yet found no conductor. All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn,...
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The Commedia and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2

Dante Alighieri - 1887 - 586 pages
...century, shone forth from republican Italy as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...their birth, and pregnant with a lightning which has as yet found no conductor." (2.) In the Lettenfrom Italy, No. 3, he speaks of "one solitary spot" in...
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The Commedia and Canzoniere ...

Dante Alighieri - 1887 - 594 pages
...century, shone forth from republican Italy as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...their birth, and pregnant with a lightning which has as yet found no conductor." (3.) In the Lritm 'from Italy, No. 3, he speaks of "one solitary spot"...
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A Defense of Poetry: Edited with Introd. and Notes

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1890 - 120 pages
...is corruption." " Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of that pleasure which exists in pain." " All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn, which contains all oaks potentially." But to continue to quote would be to repeat the Essay in the Introduction....
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A Defense of Poetry

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 132 pages
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as...lightning which has yet found no conductor. All high poetry_jfi_ AA Jnfinite ; it is as the first acorn, which contained all s oaks potentially. Veil after...
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