...electric life which burns within their words. They measure the circumference and sound the depths of fixed * O'er the Laocoon's all eternal throes,...not life, for they are etill the same, She woke at hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts...

...electric life which burns within their words. They measure the circumference and sound the depths of ave for life. We are habituated to the prison, we...only increases our fondness for the cell. The trees hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts...

...spirit, at the manifestations of which they are themselves, perhaps, the most sincerely astonished,— for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age." But speaking of Byron in his human capacity. The Byron of England and Geneva, and the Byron of Italy,...

...completed the first sketch of Lochiel. Л similar thought occurs in Shelley's Defense of Poetry : " Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic sftadow» which futurity diets upon the present.1' BRITISH LOYALTY ix DANGER. — A Canadian paper...

...striking parallel. occurs- in. the following passage in Shelley's prose piece, A. Defence of Poetry : "Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadoas wliich futurity cults upon the /in-sent," It would be interesting to ascertain at what period...

...live, Are done before all time in th' other life." And Shelley has it in one of his prose pieces :— " Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...shadows which futurity casts upon the present." The next example is the line in " Gertrude of Wyoming:"— " But stock-doves plaining thro' its gloom profound;"...

...for every bad one — a double pledge for excellence. Poets have been thus described by a poet : " The hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ;...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present."* Who does not recall ||00b's beautiful lines on the votaries of the muse ? " Blessings, be with them,...

...; How noiseless falls the foot of time,f That only treads on flowers. Lines to Lady A. Hamilton. * Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration;...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. — SHELLEY. A Defence of Poetrg. t Noiseless foot of time. All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Se....

...electric life which burns within their words. They measure the circumference and sound the depths of human nature with a comprehensive and all-penetrating...their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the CHAPTER hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; —- the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which...

...on THE SPIRITUAL MAGAZINE. 183 Poetry, Shelley more fully developes this sentiment, and says: — " Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts on the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpet that sounds to battle,...