| 1904 - Liczba stron: 510
...enchanter and we are the willing victims of his spells." "Shelley's definition of poetry, 'the records 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."—... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1905 - Liczba stron: 332
...pleasure, and, implicit in the proper pleasure, is moral satisfaction.1 Very felicitously does Shelley say that poetry is "the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds, the interpenetration of a diviner nature through our own, redeeming from decay the visitations of the... | |
| George Frederic Viett - 1905 - Liczba stron: 312
...recognition of the generous encouragement received from her distinguished son, HUGH GORDON MILLER. POETRY. 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 George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1913 - Liczba stron: 620
...suggest certain of its aspects, or give us some such vague and illuminating definition as Shelley's,' Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds,' or Wordsworth's familiar epigram of 'emotion recollected in tranquillity.' But if the quest be foredoomed... | |
| Elizabeth Hill Spalding - 1905 - Liczba stron: 296
...itself to the feelings and the imagination, by the instrumentality of musical and moving words. II. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. To understand what poetry is, one must read, and learn to know intimately, the works of great poets.... | |
| William Henry Sheran - 1905 - Liczba stron: 602
...probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet. 400 A Record of the Best Minds. — " 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 feelings sometimes associated with place or person,... | |
| John Marshall, Orlando John Stevenson - 1904 - Liczba stron: 296
...necessitated by changing circumstances of person, place, or time. Pot-try is thus, in Shelley's fine phrase, "the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds ; " and its beauty — the subject of so much learned mystification is neither more nor less than its consummate... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - Liczba stron: 412
...happy intervals, as the Vision of the Grail to the Knights of the Round Table. "Poetry," said Shelley, "is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." * * * . * If this be the need, how have our poets been answering it of late years ? How, for instance,... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - Liczba stron: 424
...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,... | |
| René Louis Huchon - 1907 - Liczba stron: 600
...Jeffrey's, Edinburgh Review, vol. xxxii. July, 1819, p. 123. 3 Cf. Shelley, A Defence of Poetry : " Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." 4 See as to this B. p. 8, col. 2 : " Nature had given him a poor ear," and a piece of conflicting testimony,... | |
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