 ... when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.  Shelley - Page 403by John Addington Symonds - 1878Full view - About this book
 | William Swinton - 1894 - 686 pages
...either of its approach o1 its departure, is Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of40 the poet. I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day, whether it is not an error to assert... | |
 | 1894 - 706 pages
...nnprophetio either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results; bnt when composition begins, inspiration ia already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been coimmmicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet. . .... | |
 | James Thomson - 1896 - 692 pages
...unprophetic, either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...conceptions of the poet. I appeal to the greatest poet of the present day, whether it is not an error to assert that the finest passages of poetry arc... | |
 | James Thomson - 1896 - 502 pages
...unprophetic, either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...conceptions of the poet. I appeal to the greatest poet of the present day, whether it is not an error to assert that the finest passages of poetry are... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet." The most important of his remaining productions (many worthy of mention must be passed over) are "... | |
 | Annie Barnett - 1900 - 1060 pages
...unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1902 - 200 pages
...the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. . . . When composition begins, inspiration is already on...feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet." § 28. The Poets Eye.—The true excellence of poetry, its true point of distinction from other modes... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1904 - 108 pages
...unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...inspiration is already on the decline, and the most r glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original... | |
 | William Henry Sheran - 1905 - 602 pages
...unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that IMS ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of... | |
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