 All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem is a fountain for ever overflowing with the waters of...  Blackwood's Magazine - 503 psl.1924Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - 774 psl.
...very words are instinct with pint; each is as a spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable bought ; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth, and >regnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor. * * * * The age immediately succeeding... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1910 - 450 psl.
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem... | |
 | Joseph Giesen - 1910 - 80 psl.
...Century shone forth from republican Italy, as from Heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as...covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with a lightniug which has yet found no conductor." Dem Gedanken, dass die göttliche Komödie wahrhaft... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bodleian Library - 1910 - 160 psl.
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is as a spark, a burning atom of inexf. 48 rev. tinguishable thought ; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant... | |
 | 1912 - 766 psl.
...can have place in an evil time." "A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth." "All high poetry is infinite. It is as the first acorn which contained all the oak potentiality." "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1913 - 410 psl.
...tribute to his whole order, as we might turn his own praise of Dante into a tribute to himself : " His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable thought." Shelley's Defence of Poetry, from which the above sentence comes, provides us with a characteristic... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1921 - 156 psl.
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with a lightning^ which has yet found no conductor. All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 458 psl.
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as...covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor. All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn,... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1921 - 156 psl.
...covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor. .AM high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1921 - 154 psl.
...he said of Dante, in language which itself carries an echo of the greater days of English verse, ' His very words are instinct with spirit * ; each is...spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable thought.' It was this quality in Shelley's prose which more particularly inspired the third piece in this volume.... | |
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