 | 1854 - 694 pages
...through all the varied music, the ground-tone of conventional life. Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is priтагу " — in disregard of the truth that it is not metres, but а metre-making argument, that... | |
 | 1850 - 548 pages
...through all the varied music the ground tone of conventional life. Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary. equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form. The poet... | |
 | Literary and philosophical society of Liverpool - 1851 - 742 pages
...within. It was the same in poetry, which was not rythmic or cadenced words, but a voice of the heart—" a thought so passionate and alive, that like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it had an architecture of its own." In every one of the arts, the same law held sway : the elements used... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 516 pages
...through all the varied music, the ground-tone of conventional life. Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary" — in disregard of the truth that it is not metres, but a metremaking argument, that makes a poem... | |
 | 1853 - 538 pages
...through all the varied music, the ground-tone of conventional life. Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary" — in disregard of the truth that it is not metres, but a metremaking argument, that makes a poem... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 518 pages
...through all the varied music, the ground-tone of conventional Me. Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. The argument is secondary, the fmish of the verses is primary" — in disregard of the truth that it is not metres, but a metremaking... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...through all the varied music, the ground tone of conventional life. Our poets are men of talents who y veils of the mist of the brooks, spreading low along the pasture lands : and then, farther north s — in disregard of the truth that it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem;... | |
 | 1855 - 448 pages
...something of our own; and so mis-write the poem." Here also is another definition of true poetry ; — "a thought so passionate and alive, that like the spirit of a plant, or an animal, it has an arehiteeture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." Bnt in aeeordanee with the quotation... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...through all the varied music, the ground-tone of conventional life. Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary. Eor it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, —a thought so passionate and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 234 pages
...through all the varied music, the ground-tone of conventional life. Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. The argument...that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has au architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal... | |
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. 
