 ... when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.  Shelley - Page 403by John Addington Symonds - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but whgn composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...either of its approach 01 its departure, ss Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of -»0 the poet. I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day, whether it is not an error to assert... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 444 pages
...unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry I _-| \that has ever been communicated to the world is probably u feeble shadow of the original conceptions... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 pages
...either of its approach 01 its departure, is Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is aiready on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...either of its approach 01 its departure. 35 Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of 40 the poet. I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day, whether it is not an error to assert... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1890 - 120 pages
...either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable 15 in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...been communicated to the world is probably a feeble sjiadow of the origins] conceptions of the poet. I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 pages
...either of its approach ' ;% or its departure/ Could this influence be durable 15 in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...composition begins, inspiration is already on the dgcJifle, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a 20... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 pages
...either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable 15 in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results; but when 1 composition begins, inspiration is already on the, decline, and the most glorious poetry that has... | |
 | 1927 - 554 pages
...Words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. So Shelley as critic affirms that "the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated...feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet," while Shelley as poet cries .... Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the... | |
 | 1926 - 536 pages
...Words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. So Shelley as critic affirms that "the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated...feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet," while Shelley as poet cries — The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of... | |
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