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" We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know ; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine ; we want the poetry of life : our calculations have outrun conception ; we have eaten more than we can digest. "
The United States Democratic Review - Page 42
1848
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Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments,

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 pages
...of facts and calculating processes. There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals, government, and political economy, or at...and better than what men now practise and endure. But we let " I dare not wait upon I would, like the poor cat in the adage." We want the creative faculty...
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A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...facts and calculating processes. T^iere is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals, government, and political economy, or at...and better than what men now practise and endure. But we let " / dare not wait upon / would, like the poor cat in the adage." We want the creative faculty...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...processes. There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals, govermnent, and political economy, or at least, what is wiser and better than what men now practise and endure. But we let "/ dare nott wait upon / wmild, like the poor cat in the adage." We want the creative faculty...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 246 pages
...processes. There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals, govermnent, and political economy, or at least, what is wiser and better than what men now practise and endure. But we let "/ dare not wait upon / wvuld, like the poor cat in the adage." We want the creative faculty...
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The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...of facts and calculating processes. There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals, government, and political economy, or at...and better than what men now practise and endure. But we let "/ dare not wait upon / would, like the poor cat in the adage." We want the creative faculty...
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The Fine Arts and Their Uses: Essays on the Essential Principles and Limits ...

William Bellars - 1876 - 408 pages
...poetry in these systems of thought is concealed by the accumulation of facts and calculating processes. We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know ; we want the generous impulse to act upon that which we imagine ; we want the poetry of life." Again, Dr Newman rejects entirely the theory...
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The Fine Arts and Their Uses. Essays, Etc

William Bellars - 1876 - 410 pages
...poetry in these systems of thought is concealed by the accumulation of facts and calculating processes. We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; we want the generous impulse to act upon that which \ve imagine; we want the poetry of life." Again, Dr Newman rejects entirely the theory...
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, how First ..., Volume 7

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...now practise and endure. But we let " / dare not wait upon / would, like the poor cat in the adage."1 We want the creative faculty to imagine that which...that which we imagine ; we want the poetry of life : our calculations have outrun conception ; we have eaten more than we can digest. The cultivation...
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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 444 pages
...of facts and calculating processes. There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest aml best in morals, government, and political economy, or at least what is wiser and 1 Hitter than what men now practise and endure. But we let " / dare not wait upon / would, like the...
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Prose Works from the Original Editions

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888 - 426 pages
...[Author's note.] calculating processes. There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals, government, and political economy, or at...and better than what men now practise and endure. But we let " / dare not wait upon / would, like the poor J cat in the adage." We want the creative...
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