 | Lewis Worthington Smith, James Eames Thomas - 1901 - 406 lehte
...subject matter, and in its stronger appeal to the imagination and the aejrnet1c sense. Shelley denned poetry as "the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds ; " and Ruskin said, " Poetry is the suggestion by the imagination of noble... | |
 | Nicholas Smith - 1903 - 271 lehte
...Spirit guide us on, Until the glorious goal is won. CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI HELLEY once defined poetry as " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds " ; whereupon the " London Saturday Review " remarks that there is a tuneful meditativeness about Miss... | |
 | Nicholas Smith - 1903 - 271 lehte
...Spirit guide us on, Until the glorious goal is won. CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI HELLEY once defined poetry as " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds " ; whereupon the " London Saturday Review " remarks that there is a tuneful meditativeness about Miss... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1903 - 321 lehte
...it is more respectful as well as more pleasurable to allow him to walk alone. Shelley's definition of poetry as " the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds " suggests the whole duty of the reader. All that is required of him is to... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1904 - 90 lehte
...Copyright 1904 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. E 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... | |
 | Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - 1907
...the twentieth century. What do we mean by literature ? Shelley's definition of poetry is sufficient: "the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest times." Now, of course, that means that in any generation the contributions to the great storehouse... | |
 | John Harrington Cox - 1908 - 227 lehte
...on which it falls open themselves to receive the wisdom which is mingled with its delight. Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds. We are aware of evanescent visitations of thought and feeling, elevating and delightful beyond all... | |
 | Mary Isabel McFadden - 1908 - 100 lehte
...expected to put her pupils in touch with their rightful heritage by introducing them to these "records of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds"? Only to the extent of her understanding of what true education is can she realize the expanding and... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Letters - 1910
...themselves in explaining it. But they are not able to predict the next stroke of genius. Shelley defines poetry as the record of "the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." When we are fortunate enough to happen in upon an author at one of these happy moments, then, as the... | |
 | Henry Evarts Gordon - 1911 - 315 lehte
...it I may improve my mind." But the real duty of the reader is suggested by these words: "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." There must be perfect reciprocity and fraternal feeling. The poet being human has his unhappy moments... | |
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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. 
