 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 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 ;...expression which is in the countenance of all science. 212. Sydney Smith, 1771-1845. (Handbook, par. 431.) Wit and Humour. I wish, after all I have said about... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1880 - 1436 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 is the impassioned expression which is on the countenance of all science.' Wherever, in fact, scienc^ ceases to be a merely external thing... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 642 pages
...rejoices in the presence of truth as our visihle friend and hourly companion. Poetry is '.he hreath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned...the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it he said of the Poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, " that he looks hefore and after." He is the rock... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1884 - 524 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 ;...expression which is in the countenance of all science. . . . " If the labours of men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect,... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pages
...passion, or of enlivened imagination, formed most commonly into regular numbers."— BLAIB. Poetry is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science. — WOKDSWOKTII. ^ All poetry worthy of the name is "more intense in meaning and more concise in style... | |
 | Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1887 - 442 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...expression which is in the countenance of all science, it is the first and last of all knowledge; it is immortal as the heart of man. If the labours of men... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere - 1887 - 434 pages
...was at the root of poetry in Wordsworth's conception of it ; his definition of poetry is — " Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the face of all science." Coleridge also, in his noble and pathetic lines addressed to Wordsworth, characterises... | |
 | William Angus Knight, Wordsworth Society - 1889 - 388 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 ;...expression which is in the countenance of all science. . . . If the labours of men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect,... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1889 - 394 pages
...in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and liner spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science. . . . If the labours of men of science should ever creale any material revolution, direct or indirect,... | |
 | John Lancaster Spalding - 1890 - 236 pages
...and consequently thought made beautiful, attractive, contagious. It is, to quote Wordsworth, " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the...expression which is in the countenance of all science." The poet has more enthusiasm and tenderness than other men, a more sensitive soul, a more comprehensive... | |
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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. 
