Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and nation in which they appeared, were called, in the earlier epochs of the world, legislators, or prophets : a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters. For he not only beholds intensely... English Critical Essays (nineteenth Century) - Página 122editado por - 1924 - 610 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1842 - 572 páginas
...legislators or prophets. A poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters ; for he Ml only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws * Miscellanies, vol. ii. p. 256. f ^Esthetik, bi Einleitung, p. 2. ! ' Essays and Letters from Abroad... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 páginas
...1 and discovers those laws according to which preJ sent things ought to be ordered, but he beholdá the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest timeM Not that I assert poets to be prophets in the gross sense of the word, or tfaat_they can thfi... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 páginas
...beh.iH« the future in the present, and his thoughts anthe germs of the flower and the fruit of Ысч time. Not that I assert poets to be prophets in the gross sense of the word, or that they oui foretell the fonn as surely as they foreknoj* tbv spirit of events : such is the pretence of sopprstition,... | |
| 1848 - 578 páginas
...Thus he not only," as Shelley truly observes, " beholds the present intensely as it is, but discovers the future in the present, and his thoughts are the...germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time." Nor is he merely the expounder of nature and of life : to him it is also given to reveal the mysteries... | |
| 1857 - 866 páginas
...in the earlier epochs of the world, legislators or prophets. A poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters, for he not only beholds intensely...in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of flower, and the fruit of latest time. The most unfailing herald, companion and follower of the awaliening... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 páginas
...the earlier epochs of the world, legislators or prophets : a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters. For he not only beholds intensely...the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the tiower and the fruit of latest time. Not that I assert poets to be prophets in the gross sense of the... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 444 páginas
...\/'\n the earlier epochs of the world, legislators or prophets: a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters. For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and diseovei-s those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future... | |
| Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 páginas
...the earlier epochs of the world, legislators, or prophets : a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters. For he not only beholds intensely...present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and fruit of the latest time. Not that I assert poets to be prophets in the gross sense of the word, or... | |
| Philip Sidney - 1890 - 206 páginas
...in the earlier epochs of the world, legislators or prophets. A poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters. • For he not only beholds...germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time." by lighting upon the passage in the sixth book of the jEneid which bids the Roman ' rule mankind and... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1890 - 120 páginas
...PROPHETS. / earlier epochs of the world, legislators or prophets; a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters. For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is. and discovers those laws accord5 ing to which present things ought to be orderedj but he beholds the future in the present,... | |
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