 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - Poetry - 1890 - 120 pages
...reasoning, a power to be 5 exerted according to the determination of the will. ^. man cannot say. "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot...say it ; for the mind in creation^ is as a fading c.oaj, ^ influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to trap.- 10 sitory brightness; this power arises... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 576 pages
...cannot * Conversations with Eckennann and Soret ; Oxenford's translation. At Jena, Sept. 18, 1823. say it : for the mind in creation is as a fading coal,...it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. . . . Poetry is the record of the best... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Digital images - 1891 - 124 pages
...exerted accor3ing7"To"jtHe 3etermination of the" will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." I The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind/...invisible/ influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to tran-10 sitory brightness; this power arises from within, like the color of a flower which fades and... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Digital images - 1891 - 124 pages
...reasoning, a power to be 5 exerted according to the determination of the will.' A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry." / The greatest poet even cannot...creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible I influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to tran- y> ^ \> \ sitory brightness ; this power arises... | |
 | Religion - 1892 - 822 pages
...proceed to disregard it by setting aside all its requisitions. Shelley says that a man cannot say, " ' I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot...it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure." 1 In the same way Schiller wrote to... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - 1893 - 246 pages
...Sometimes a clearer note is struck with the sure and delicate touch which is the excellence of art. " For the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness." The substitution of the word " glow " for " brightness " would, I think, make this sentence extremely... | |
 | American essays - 1893 - 930 pages
...Sometimes a clearer note is struck with the sure and delicate touch which is the excellence of art. " For the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness." The substitution of the word " glow " for " brightness " would, I think, make this sentence extremely... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1897 - 250 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 natures... | |
 | 1894 - 706 pages
...say it; for the 1 See Letter to Oilier, Jan. 20, 1820, Shelley Memorials, p. 135. mind in creation ia as a fading coal, which some invisible influence,...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 natures... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 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...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... | |
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I will compose poetry". The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness... 
