| James Thomson - English literature - 1896 - 502 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... | |
| Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Criticism - 1896 - 330 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... | |
| James Thomson - English literature - 1896 - 692 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... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1897 - 302 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."* In the same way Schiller wrote to... | |
| Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 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 natures... | |
| Laurie Magnus - English language - 1902 - 200 pages
...Poeticall nature in chiefe." And, lastly, as Shelley, himself a great poet, wrote, " 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... | |
| Dante Alighieri, Philip Henry Wicksteed, Edmund G. Gardner - 1902 - 370 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 natures... | |
| John Nichol - Poets, English - 1902 - 700 pages
...Shelley Memorials, p. 135. mind in creation ia as a fading coal, which some invisible in. flnenco, like an 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 oar natures... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - Literary Criticism - 1903 - 434 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." l In a like vein Schiller wrote to... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - Literary Criticism - 1903 - 466 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." l In a like vein Schiller wrote to... | |
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