 | 1900 - Liczba stron: 654
...themselves, and which have more than merely practical value. Of literature it has been said that " it is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." It is the highest form of self-expression, and it has value in proportion as it ascends above the plane... | |
 | Henry Morse Stephens - 1900 - Liczba stron: 616
...given the best of all reasons why we should read it. If poetry be really what Shelley thought it, " the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds," its claims need no enforcement, provided they are once perceived. No new converts .ire to be gained... | |
 | Lewis Worthington Smith, James Eames Thomas - 1901 - Liczba stron: 436
...matter, and in its stronger appeal to the imagination and the aejrnet1c sense. Shelley denned poetry as "the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds ; " and Ruskin said, " Poetry is the suggestion by the imagination of noble grounds for noble emotions." These... | |
 | Oscar Israel Woodley, Myra Soper Woodley, George Rice Carpenter - 1902 - Liczba stron: 186
...greatest of these is charity. 6. Her voice is more clear and sweet than the sound of the singing brook. 7. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest minds. 8. .The rose looks fair, but fairer we deem it 9. The highest praise of genius is original invention.... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1903 - Liczba stron: 348
...respectful as well as more pleasurable to allow him to walk alone. Shelley's definition of poetry as " the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds " suggests the whole duty of the reader. All that is required of him is to obey the Golden Rule. There... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1912 - Liczba stron: 356
...respectful as well as more pleasurable to allow him to walk alone. Shelley's definition of poetry as " the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds " suggests the whole duty of the reader. All that is required of him is to obey the Golden Rule. There... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1904 - Liczba stron: 108
...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,... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - Liczba stron: 930
...examples may make this clearer, and show, too, the difficulty of the problem. " Poetry," says Shelley, " is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." But how can this include that genuine poetic genius, Byron, who gloried in being neither good nor happy?... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1904 - Liczba stron: 692
..."centre and circumference of knowledge," the "perfect and consummate surface and bloom of all things," the " record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." All which (or all except the crotchet about verse) I for one do most powerfully and potently believe... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - Liczba stron: 920
...subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. — Denham. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest minds. — Shelley. Poetry is the art of substituting shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.... | |
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. 
