 Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, I will compose poetry ! The greatest poet even cannot say it, for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence,...  A Reader's History of American Literature - Página 246por Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 327 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 páginas
...greatest poet cannot aay it, for the mind in creation if. a» a fading coal, which some irresistible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory...This power arises from within, like the color of a Mower which dims and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 páginas
...productions exemplified hie words has Ntld : " A man cannot sny, I will write poetry ; the greatest poet cannot say it, for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some irresistible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness. This power arises... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 430 páginas
...soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say," I will compose poetry." The greatest...brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 páginas
...soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest...brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 páginas
...soar? Poetry is not, like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in3o creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens... | |
 | William Swinton - 1888 - 686 páginas
...? Poetry is not, like rta ;oning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in 30 creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888 - 426 páginas
...be exerted according to the-determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will_compose_jgoetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind" in creation is as a Jjylijjg coal, whi-h some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1890 - 120 páginas
...Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be 5 exerted according to the determination of the will. ^. man cannot say. "I will compose poetry." The greatest...say it ; for the mind in creation^ is as a fading c.oaj, ^ influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to trap.- 10 sitory brightness; this power arises... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 páginas
...Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be 5 exerted according to the determination of the will.' A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry." / The greatest...creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible I influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to tran- y> ^ \> \ sitory brightness ; this power arises... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 páginas
...exerted accor3ing7"To"jtHe 3etermination of the" will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." I The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind/...invisible/ influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to tran-10 sitory brightness; this power arises from within, like the color of a flower which fades and... | |
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