Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire;... Philosophical Studies - Página 93por Catholic University of America - 1915Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 páginas
...sincerely astonished at its manifestations ; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...present ; the words which express what they understand not ; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 páginas
...sincerely astonished at its manifestations ; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration;...present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1840 - 346 páginas
...a beautiful passage on the influence of the poetic spirit, he says — " Poets are the hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the...present ; the words which express what they understand not ; tho trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved... | |
| 1842 - 572 páginas
...of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution it poetry. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...present ; the words which express what they understand not ; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire. Poets are the unacknowledged... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...manifestations, for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hiérophante d assist, or relieve, or remember me ; but my friends,...forgotten. Permit me, then, 0 Chinvang, to wear ou not ; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...manifestations, for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hiérophante Aï S = kl o ᓫb ;*> f $ jҲ Q ; ; q , k < ђ . j ...̿V R x V t؏ɘ)fh a_N e 3 !O 6R\ b > E l!h̺4JBm not ; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 páginas
...; Hence British poets, too, the priesthood shared, And every hallowed Druid was a bard.'' COWPEB. " Poets are the Hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration,...present, the words which express what they understand not, the trumpets which sing to hattle, and feel not what they inspire, the influence which is moved... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 360 páginas
...; Hence British poets, too, the priesthood shared, And every hallowed Druid was a bard." COWPER. .' Poets are the Hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration,...present, the words which express what they understand not, the trumpets which sing to hattle, and feel not what they inspire, the influence which is moved... | |
| John William Lester - 1847 - 376 páginas
...year, we write " Plagiarisms." Would that it had been otherwise! POLL OK. " Poets are the hieroplmnts of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the...present ; the words which express what they understand not ; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 páginas
...the poetic spirit, he says—" Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; themirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved... | |
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