 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1882 - 856 pages
...imagery, and commanding the passions in the dignity of its march. " Poetry," says Shelley, " is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Poetry makes immortal all that is best and .most beautiful in the world. Poetry redeems from decay... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 pages
...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 - 678 pages
...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 - 708 pages
...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
...the art to which he devoted his faculties. 'Poetry,' he 'says in one of his essays, ' is the record e now reigned above fifty yearn in victory or peace ; beloved by We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling, sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...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
...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,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1856 - 390 pages
...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... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 pages
...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. 
