 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 pages
...soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest...brightness; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...exerted according •TO the dull'l munition of the will. A man cannot say, ' 1 will compose poctrv." The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is as a fadingf coal, which some invisible influence, like an incon-j slant wind, awakens to transitory brightness... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...soar? j Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the jniud in creation is as a . fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an / inconstant wind,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...tells •as," is not, like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, ' I will compose poetry.' The greatest...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which st>me invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...tells us, " is not, like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, ' I will compose poetry.' The greatest...poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation rs as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 pages
...soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest...brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 pages
...? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the w ill. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest...brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 444 pages
...Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to ', -| be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest...brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions j of our... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...• Poetry is not, like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in 30 creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1882 - 422 pages
...greatest poet cannot say it, for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some irresistible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory...arises from within, like the color of a flower which dims and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are un prophetic either... | |
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Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, I will compose poetry ! The greatest poet even cannot say it, for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence,... 
