| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in... | |
| William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in 30 creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to... | |
| John Campbell Shairp - Poetry - 1882 - 422 pages
...greatest poet cannot say it, for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some irresistible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory...arises from within, like the color of a flower which dims and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are un prophetic either... | |
| Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...greatest poet cannot aay it, for the mind in creation if. a» a fading coal, which some irresistible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory...This power arises from within, like the color of a Mower which dims and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic... | |
| Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...productions exemplified hie words has Ntld : " A man cannot sny, I will write poetry ; the greatest poet cannot say it, for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some irresistible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness. This power arises... | |
| George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 432 pages
...reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot...brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature... | |
| George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 430 pages
...like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say," I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot...brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature... | |
| George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 432 pages
...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888 - 426 pages
...be exerted according to the-determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will_compose_jgoetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind" in creation is as a Jjylijjg coal, whi-h some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness... | |
| William Swinton - English literature - 1888 - 686 pages
...rta ;oning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in 30 creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to... | |
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