| Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - Liczba stron: 330
...formation is incapable of accounting to itself for the origin, the gradations, or the media of the process. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
| Louis Klopsch - 1896 - Liczba stron: 382
...fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice. — MAZZINI. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. — SHELLEY. Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer... | |
| Sir Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn, John Joseph Quelch, James Rodway - 1897 - Liczba stron: 416
...pocket Elia and the Autocrat, and later on, wend my way home again. "Poetry," in the words of SHELLEY, " is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds," and of all kinds of composition is that which gives the greatest and most enduring pleasure. It is, therefore,... | |
| John Edward Patterson - 1897 - Liczba stron: 156
...language of Milton and Shakespeare — as those of Homer and Dante — are cast in the poetic mould. For " poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds," it " makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world," and it " redeems from decay... | |
| David Herschell Edwards - 1897 - Liczba stron: 382
...personal purity of aim. No base metal is permitted, all is as pure gold as its author can present. It is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds, revealing what is fair, and bright, and beautiful in feeling', and imagination and thought. Such writings... | |
| Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - Liczba stron: 350
...inspiration, are the subtle tests of all lyrical writing. Lyric poetry is pre-eminently the outcome of " the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds". Apply this test never so strictly, and it is still amazing what extent and variety of product remains... | |
| Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - Liczba stron: 384
...inspiration, are the subtle tests of all lyrical writing. Lyric poetry is pre-eminently the outcome of " the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds". Apply this test never so strictly, and it is still amazing what extent and variety of product remains... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley, Fred Newton Scott - 1899 - Liczba stron: 620
...immorality of poetry, to the poetic quality of Christianity, and to the so-called definition (p. 138), ' Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.' This prose-poem might profitably be read in connection with the Ion, the Philebus, the Phaedrus, and... | |
| Annie Barnett - 1900 - Liczba stron: 1060
...been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
| Goodloe Harper Bell - 1900 - Liczba stron: 620
..."great ancient masters." He had an exalted idea of the poetical art. In one of his essays he says, " Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." But Shelley's flights of fancy are too ethereal for general reading. To most minds a great share of... | |
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