 Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence,...  1785-1824 - Page 9edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
 | William Swinton - 1888 - 686 pages
...regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not, like rta ;oning, a power to be exerted according to the determination...greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in 30 creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888 - 426 pages
...and fire from those-eternaT regions where the owl- winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the-determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will_compose_jgoetry." The greatest poet even... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? 4212 Shelley: A Defence of Poetry. Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted...brightness. This power arises from within, like the color of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? 4212 Shelley : ^Defence of Poetry. Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted...to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " 1 will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1890 - 120 pages
...Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be 5 exerted according to the determination of the will. ^. man cannot say. "I will compose poetry." The greatest...say it ; for the mind in creation^ is as a fading c.oaj, ^ influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to trap.- 10 sitory brightness; this power arises... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 pages
...faculty of calculation dare not ever '•' .^ soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be 5 exerted according to the determination of the will.'...creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible I influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to tran- y> ^ \> \ sitory brightness ; this power arises... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 576 pages
...quivered with the "harmonious madness" of imaginative concentration. "Poetry," he himself tells us, "is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot * Conversations with Eckennann and Soret ; Oxenford's translation. At Jena, Sept. 18, 1823. say it... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 pages
...exerted accor3ing7"To"jtHe 3etermination of the" will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." I The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind/...invisible/ influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to tran-10 sitory brightness; this power arises from within, like the color of a flower which fades and... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 132 pages
...and fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be/ exerted according to the determination of tha will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry.."! I The_grgatest_p_oetjeven cannot^ say it; for... | |
 | 1892 - 822 pages
...but the poet would proceed to disregard it by setting aside all its requisitions. Shelley says that a man cannot say, " ' I will compose poetry.' The...brightness ; this power arises from within, like the color of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature... | |
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