...formation is incapable of accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are a wire of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling sometimes associated with place or person,...

...is the spontaneous overflow o- powerful feeling. — Wordsworth ; Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. V. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. — Shelley, Defense of Poetry. VI. Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds...

...although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid. — Cotton. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. — Shdleg. Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. — Carlyle....

...destinies than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto." Poetry has been well called the record " of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds ; " it is the light of life, the very " image of life expressed in its eternal truth ; " it immortalizes...

...coimmmicated to the world is probably a 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. . . . SONNET. ON His BLINDNESS. John Milton. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days...

...formation is incapable of accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments...sometimes regarding our own mind alone, and always arising unforeseen and departing unbidden, but elevating and delightful beyond all expression : so that even...

...fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice. — MAZZINI. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. — SHELLEY. Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer...

...language of Milton and Shakespeare — as those of Homer and Dante — are cast in the poetic mould. For " poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds," it " makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world," and it " redeems from decay...

...personal purity of aim. No base metal is permitted, all is as pure gold as its author can present. It is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds, revealing what is fair, and bright, and beautiful in feeling', and imagination and thought. Such writings...

...pocket Elia and the Autocrat, and later on, wend my way home again. "Poetry," in the words of SHELLEY, " is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds," and of all kinds of composition is that which gives the greatest and most enduring pleasure. It is,...