 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;...  Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer - Page 4by Charles Sotheran - 1876 - 51 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 lehte
...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...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS. SI THE period which intervened... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 lehte
...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;...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS. a .^Fragment.* THE4ieiic4_whichJntervened... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1840 - 346 lehte
...a beautiful passage on the influence of the poetic spirit, he says — " Poets are the hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the...; 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 not,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 lehte
...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,...me more pleasing than the most splendid palace : world.' 1 •WILLIAM COWPEB. WILLIAM COWPEB, ' the most popular poet of his generation, and the best... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 lehte
...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 ... l!h̺4JBm mC ?n % ,3~` 6W5ʨ(e ,; 7 f world.' WILLIAM COWPER. WILLIAM COWPER, ' the most popular poet of his generation, and the best of... | |
 | 1842 - 572 lehte
...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...which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." We have cited these passages for the weight... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 lehte
...gigal» tic shadows which futurity castsupqn_the_Dresent ж the words which express what they understanfi not ; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. .14 ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS. a JFrajpnent.» THE... | |
 | John William Lester - 1847 - 376 lehte
...year, we write " Plagiarisms." Would that it had been otherwise! POLL OK. " Poets are the hieroplmnts of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." — SHELLEY. A FRIDAY, on the 19th October, now some fifty years back, — Glasgow, as ever,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 lehte
...the poetic spirit, he says—" Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; themirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." THE PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN. FREQUENTLY as poets have made use of the music of the spheres, they... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 lehte
...; Hence British poets, too, the priesthood shared, And every hallowed Druid was a bard.'' COWPEB. " Poets are the Hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration,...what they understand not, the trumpets which sing to hattle, and feel not what they inspire, the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the... | |
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