 The most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is poetry.  The Celt - Page 621857Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 368 pages
...for civil and religious liberty. The most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is poetry. At such periods there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...for civil and religious liberty. The most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is poetry. At such periods there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...for civil and religious liberty. The most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening n, and o'er each mouldering tower, Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade At such periods there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...for civil and religious liberty. The most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening ornings break. At such periods there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 572 pages
...flower, and the fruit of latest time. The moat unfailing Herald, companion and follower 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 ; the mirrors of the gigantic... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...religious liberty. The uyja- i ional/ most uníaíling- herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution; is poetry. At such periods there is an accumulation of the power of «nrorpnnicating; and . receiving intense... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1846 - 588 pages
...Shelley, long ago, remarked that the most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is poetry. Hood was always peculiarly susceptible of that influence from without, which is almost an unapprehended... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 384 pages
...Essay on Poetry, Shelley more fully developes this sentiment, and says, — " Poets are the hyerophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts on the present ; the words which express what they understand not ; the VOL. n. H trumpet that sounds... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 586 pages
...of tea " he completed the first sketch of Lochiel. Л similar thought occurs in Shelley's Defense of Poetry : " Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic sftadow» which futurity diets upon the present.1' BRITISH LOYALTY ix DANGER. — A Canadian paper... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1855 - 668 pages
...still more striking parallel. occurs- in. the following passage in Shelley's prose piece, A. Defence of Poetry : "Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadoas wliich futurity cults upon the /in-sent," It would be interesting to ascertain at what period... | |
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