 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...Science. Emphatically may it be. said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the Fock of defence of human... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it...Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it...Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, '•* that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human... | |
 | 1857 - 878 pages
...says Wordsworth — and we shall venture to include within the term, the arts in general — " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...expression which is in the countenance of all science." " Every great poet," he likewise maintains, and therefore we would say, every great poet-artist, "... | |
 | 1865 - 1194 pages
...way through flowers." •)• * Set, particularly, Macwilay's « Lay* of Ancient Home." t " F»"»-" "Poetry," says Wordsworth, "is the breath and finer...said of the poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, that 'he looks before and after.' He is the rock of defence for human nature ; an upholder and preserver,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...said of the Poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human nature ; an upholder and preserver,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it...Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shukspcare hath said of man, « that he looks before and after » He is the rock of defence of human... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1882 - 856 pages
...sweet leaves to the air, and dedicates its beauty to the sun ' — there is poetry in its birth." " Poetry," says Wordsworth, " is the breath and finer...expression which is in the countenance of all science." " No man," says Coleridge, " was ever yet a great poet without being, at the same time, a profound... | |
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. 
