 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...is impossible to predict the greatness of the results; ' but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry...present"? day, whether it is not an error to assert 0iat the ' finest passages of poetry are produced by labour and study. The toil and the delay recommended... | |
 | 1841 - 540 pages
...of a first reading by strict reviewing and alteration. " I appeal," says he, " to the greatest poet of the present day, whether it is not an error to...that the finest passages of poetry are produced by labor and study." (Essays, I. 56.) Still, the finest passages evidently will be written by him who,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry...probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of -ยป0 the poet. I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day, whether it is not an error to assert... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 pages
...impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is aiready on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that...probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of <=i the poet. I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day, whether it is not an error to assert... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry...probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of 40 the poet. I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day, whether it is not an error to assert... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888 - 426 pages
...is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry...finest passages of poetry are produced by labour and stu3y. The-toil and the delay recommended by critics can be justly interpreted to mean no more than... | |
 | William Swinton - 1888 - 686 pages
...is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry...that the finest passages of poetry are produced by labor and study. The toil and the delay recommended by critics can be justly interpreted to mean no... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...poein is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. 4209 Shelley : A Defence of Poetry. I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day,...that the finest passages of poetry are produced by labor and study. The toil and delay recommended by critics can be justly interpreted to mean no more... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. 4209 Shelley : A Defence of Poetry. 1 appeal to the greatest poets of the present day, whether...that the finest passages of poetry are produced by labor and study. The toil and delay recommended by critics can be justly interpreted to mean no more... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1890 - 120 pages
...is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins^ inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry...been communicated to the world is probably a feeble sjiadow of the origins] conceptions of the poet. I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day... | |
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Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated... 
