THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS, AND OTHER POEMS. With two Designs by DG ROSSETTI. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. " Miss Rossetti' 's poems are of the kind which recalls Shelley's definition of Poetry as the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds. Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews - Page 19by Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 378 lehteFull view - About this book
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 lehte
...estimate of his virtues and his genius than has hitherto been done. We find, in the verse of a poet, " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds*." But this is not enough—we desire to know the man. We desire to learn how much of the sensibility... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 lehte
...estimate of his virtues and his genius than has hitherto been done. We find, in the verse of a poet, "the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds."* But this is not enough — we desire to know the man. We desire to learn how much of the sensibility... | |
| 1840 - 424 lehte
...poetry, in the sense of one of the happiest definitions which we have seen ; " Poetry," says Shelley, "is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." Pleasure, without mixture of misgiving or alarm ; beauty ; love ; clear conscience ; and fresh, perennial... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 lehte
...estimate of his virtues and his genius than has hitherto been done. « We find, in the verse of a poet, " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds."* But this is not enough — we desire to know the man. We desire to learn how much of the sensibility... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 330 lehte
...come. It is built on, and of, and in, and for happiness. " It is the record," as Shelley has it, " of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." True, it often deals with sorrow, but none of our sorrows are without a ray of comfort ; and as black... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 310 lehte
...come. It is built on, and of, and in, and for happiness. " It is the record," as Shelley has it, " of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." True, it often deals with sorrow, but none of our sorrows are without a ray of comfort ; and as black... | |
| 1853 - 604 lehte
...is, as in the strictest sense factitious and artificial. Shelley, indeed, very sweetly calls poetry " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds;" but then this only refers us farther back in time for the poetry, which .certainly does not consist... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 528 lehte
...as, in the strictest sense, factitious and artificial. Shelley, indeed, very sweetly calls poetry " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds ; " but then this only refers us farther back in time for the poetry, which certainly does not consist... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 494 lehte
...as, in the strictest sense, factitious and artificial. Shelley, indeed, very sweetly calls poetry " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds ; " but then this only refers us farther back in time for the poetry, which certainly does not consist... | |
| 1892 - 880 lehte
...passion are touched by a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form." Shelley's description of poetry, as " the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best men," strikes the same key, and fits prose, especially of the imaginative sort which... | |
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