 Many people suppose that poetry is something to be found only in books, contained in lines of ten syllables, with like endings: but wherever there is a sense of beauty, or power, or harmony, as in the motion of a wave of the sea, in the growth of a flower...  The New Monthly Belle Assemblée - Pàgina 350Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 pàgines
...in lines of ten syllables, with like endings: but wherever there is a sense of beauty, or power, or harmony, as in the motion of a wave of the sea, in...its beauty to the sun," — there is poetry in its birth. If history is a grave study, poetry may be said to be a graver: its materials lie deeper, and... | |
 | 1818 - 606 pàgines
...in lines of ten syllables, with like endings: but wherever there is a sense of beauty, or power, or harmony, as in the motion of a wave of the sea, in...its beauty to the sun," — there is poetry in its birth. If history is a grave study, poetry may be said to be a graver: its materials lie deeper, and... | |
 | 1818 - 598 pàgines
...in lines of ten syllables, with like endings: but wherever there is a sense of beaut}', or power, or harmony, as in the motion of a wave of the sea, in...flower that " spreads its sweet leaves to the air, and dedicatesits beauty to the sun," — there is poetry in its birth. If history is a grave study, poetry... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 pàgines
...in lines of ten syllables, with like endings: but wherever there is a sense of beauty, or power, or harmony, as in the motion of a wave of the sea, in...flower that " spreads its sweet leaves to the air, and dedicatesits beauty to the sun," — there is poetry in its birth. If history is a grave study, poetry... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pàgines
...in lines of ten syllables, with like endings : but wherever there is a sense of beauty, or power, or harmony, as in the motion of a wave of the sea, in the growth of a flsswer that " spreads its sweet leaves to the air, and dedicatesjts beauty to the sun," — there... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pàgines
...in lines often syllables, with like endings : but wherever there ia a sense of beauty, or power, or harmony, as in the motion of a wave of the sea, in...its beauty to the sun," — there is poetry in its birth. If history is a grave study, poetry may be said to be a graver : its materials lie deeper, and... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1882 - 856 pàgines
...Wherever there is a sense of beauty, or power, or harmony, as in the motion of a wave of the sea, or in the growth of a flower that ' spreads its sweet...its beauty to the sun ' — there is poetry in its birth." " Poetry," says Wordsworth, " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pàgines
...in lines of ten syllables, with like endings : but wherever there is a sense of beauty, or power, or harmony, as in the motion of a wave of the sea, in...growth of a flower that ' spreads its sweet leaves through the air, and dedicates its beauty to the sun,' — there is poetry in its bin!;, if history... | |
 | 1837 - 860 pàgines
...been the study and delight of mankind in all ages. Wherever there is a sense of beauty, or power, or harmony, — as in the motion of a wave of the sea,...its beauty to the sun," — there is poetry in its birth. It is " the stuff of which our life is made ;" all that is worth remembering in life is the... | |
 | J. Hemming Webb - 1839 - 102 pàgines
...bears within itself the germ of poetry. " Wherever there is a sense of beauty, or power, or * Macauley. harmony, as in the motion of a wave of the sea, in the growth of the flower that spreads its sweet leaves to the air, and dedicates its beauty to the sun, there is... | |
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