 | 1875 - 852 psl.
...above the level of mediocrity, or contain — as Emerson says in the extract quoted by the author — " a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." Poems and Translations. By W. Starkey. Dublin : G. Herbert. London : Simpkin and Co., 1875. — Most... | |
 | Richard Pritchard - 1877 - 150 psl.
...metres, but a metre-making agreement ihat makes и poem — a thought so passionate and alive ihat, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing" O'r dosbarth aftVyddiamis, eto, mae y rhai ydynt yn derbyn eu syniadau mewn iaith rydd. Yn lle llafurio... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1879 - 198 psl.
...bronze of COSMO the FIRST, as it stands in Florence at the present titne.~] MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. "It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes...plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its men, and adorns Nature with a nem thing And this is the reward : that the ideal shall be the real to... | |
 | William Sharp - 1882 - 474 psl.
...the author, Ealph Waldo Emerson, rightly remarks, " It is not metres, but a metre-making arrangement that makes a poem ; a thought so passionate and alive,...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." This sentence, or the same thought as therein expressed, must have occurred to every sympathetic reader... | |
 | William Sharp - 1882 - 474 psl.
...white-heat lyricism of the latter. It has indeed a central thought " so passionate and alive " that it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing, yet, while it attains the summit of perfect prose, it does not overstep the narrow border line and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 234 psl.
...not the children of music. The argument is secondary, ' the finish of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes...that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has au architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal... | |
 | Norman Van Pelt Levis - 1892 - 198 psl.
...not painted or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful. "It is not meters, but a meter-making argument, that makes a poem — a thought so passionate and alive that, like the spirit of a plant or animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. "Doubt not, O poet,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 258 psl.
...higher one than that of the outer, the rhythm of thought is more thrilling than that of sound. ' It is not metres but a metre-making argument that makes...passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.' * Aristotle, in the... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 psl.
...Griswold. It is not metres, but a metre-making agreement, that makes a poem, — a thought so paseionatc and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of it< own, and adorns nature with a new thing. — Emerson. Poetry Is the art of substituting shadows,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 248 psl.
...argument that makes a poem ; a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.' * Aristotle, in the exposition of his doctrine of the ' Four * Emerson. Causes,' as it is called, tells... | |
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For it is not metres, but a metremaking argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. 
