 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be. said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, '•* that he looks before... | |
 | 1857 - 878 pages
...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, "... | |
 | 1865 - 1194 pages
...•)• * Set, particularly, Macwilay's « Lay* of Ancient Home." t " F»"»-" "Poetry," says Wordsworth, "is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...expression which is in the countenance of all science. Emphatically may it be said of the poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, that 'he looks before and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man. If the labours of Meii of Science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in (he impressions which we habitually receive, the Poet will sleep then no more than at present, but... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1882 - 856 pages
...dedicates its beauty to the sun ' — there is poetry in its birth." " Poetry," says Wordsworth, " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...expression which is in the countenance of all science." " No man," says Coleridge, " was ever yet a great poet without being, at the same time, a profound... | |
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is- the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science. 
