 Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry...  The New-York Review - Page 171839Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...Science. Emphatically may it be. said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the Fock of defence of human... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...Poet, singing a song in which all human beinga join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, '•* that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...Poetry," says Wordsworth — and we shall venture to include within the term, the arts in general — " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science." " Every great poet," he likewise maintains, and therefore we would say, every great poet-artist, "... | |
 | Arminianism - 1865 - 1194 pages
...•)• * Set, particularly, Macwilay's « Lay* of Ancient Home." t " F»"»-" "Poetry," says Wordsworth, "is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...hath said of man, that 'he looks before and after.' He is the rock of defence for human nature ; an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere with him... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...hath said of man, " that he looks before and after." He is the rock of defence of human nature ; an upholder and preserver, carrying every where with him... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shukspcare hath said of man, « that he looks before and after » He is the rock of defence of human... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1882 - 856 pages
...dedicates its beauty to the sun ' — there is poetry in its birth." " Poetry," says Wordsworth, " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...expression which is in the countenance of all science." " No man," says Coleridge, " was ever yet a great poet without being, at the same time, a profound... | |
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