No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. Shakespeare's Venvs & Adonis - Page ivby William Shakespeare - 1593 - 106 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Mackinnon Robertson - Literary Criticism - 1897 - 432 pages
...in Ashe's ed. of Miscellanies, p. 347). In the Biographia (ch. xv., Bohn ed., p. 155) he writes : " No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at...all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotion, language." (Cp. Wordsworth's "The breath and finer spirit of all knowledge." Pref. to Lyrical... | |
| Stephen Phillips - 1897 - 136 pages
...precisely that kind of contemplation which our recent poetry lacks. * Poetry,' says Coleridge once more, * is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, knowledge.' It should not be didactic, it cannot help being moral} it must not be instructive, but... | |
| Stephen Phillips - English poetry - 1897 - 134 pages
...precisely that kind of contemplation which our recent poetry lacks. ' Poetry,' says Coleridge once more, ' is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotion, knowledge.' It should not be didactic, it cannot help being moral : it must not be instructive,... | |
| Stephen Phillips - 1897 - 140 pages
...precisely that kind of contemplation which our recent poetry lacks. Poetry, says Coleridge once more, ' is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotion, knowledge.' It should not be didactic, it cannot help being moral: it must not be instructive,... | |
| Stephen Phillips - 1897 - 134 pages
...precisely that kind of contemplation which our recent poetry lacks. 'Poetry,' says Coleridge once more, 'is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotion, knowledge." It should not ba didactic, it cannot help being moral : it must not be instructive,... | |
| Stephen Phillips - English poetry - 1898 - 138 pages
...precisely that kind of contemplation which our recent poetry lacks. Poetry, says Coleridge once more, ' is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotion, knowledge." It should not be didactic, it cannot help being moral : it must not be instructive,... | |
| Stephen Phillips - Adultery - 1900 - 166 pages
...precisely that kind of contemplation which our recent poetry lacks. ' Poetry,' says Coleridge once more, ' is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotion, knowledge.' It should not be didactic, it cannot help being moral : it must not be instructive,... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1900 - 516 pages
...undercurrent of feeling; it is everywhere present, but seldom anywhere as a separate excitement. . . . For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all...human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language." His Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare was an epochmaking work in the criticism of that dramatist. Professor... | |
| Stephen Phillips - 1900 - 134 pages
...precisely that kind of contemplation which our recent poetry lacks. ' Poetry,' says Coleridge once more, ' is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotion, knowledge.' It should not be didactic, it cannot help being moral : it must not be instructive,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 570 pages
...1. gorgons and hydras. Paradise Lost, Book n. 1. 628. regarded him ratftcr as a metaphysician. Cf. 4 No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.' Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, Chap. xv. 246. Be kind. Act HI. I. Go, one of you, Act IT. I. 247.... | |
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