 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1882 - 856 pages
...truth ;" I told you that Ebenezer Elliott calls it " impassioned truth ;" that Shelley says it is " the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds ;" that Hazlitt says " it is the universal language with which the heart holds converse with Nature... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 pages
...incapable of accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling, sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
 | 1843 - 708 pages
...and splendor of unfaded beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption." Again he says : " Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds" — " Poetry turns all things to loveliness. It exalts the beauty of that which is most beautiful,... | |
 | 1843 - 678 pages
...and splendor of unfaded beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption." Again he says : " Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds" — " Poetry turns all things to loveliness. It exalts the beauty of that which is most beautiful,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...high idea of the art to which he devoted his faculties. 'Poetry,' he 'says in one of his essays, ' is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling, sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...incapable of accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest (moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...incapable of accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We *re aware of evanescent visitations of thought and IVvling sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
 | 1856 - 390 pages
...Defence of Poetry," written by Shelley, the only finished prose work he left behind him. " Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of the evanescent visitations of thought and feeling, sometimes associated with place... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. . . . Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 pages
...will appear from the following extract from one of his prose essays : — ' Poetry,' he says, ' is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling, sometimes associated with place and... | |
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. 
