...to thought or expression, without being startled by the electric life which there is in their words. They measure the circumference and sound the depths of human nature, with a comprehensive, all-embracing, all-penetrating spirit, at which they are themselves most sincerely astonished : it...

...to thought or expression, without being startled by the electric life which there is in their words. They measure the circumference and sound the depths of human nature, with a comprehensive, all-embracing, all-penetrating spirit, at which they are themselves most sincerely astonished : it...

...writers of the present day, without being startled with the electric life which burns within their words. man gore! He made hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts...

...writers of the present day, without being startled with the electric life which burns within their words. n's passion for confinement is similar to that we...only increases our fondness for the cell. The trees hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts...

...writers of the present day without being startled with the electric life which burns within their words. They measure the circumference and sound the depths of human nature with a comprehensivj jmdjiU-pjenjetrating~spirii 5ml they "arc fliemsclvt t ц i Д V > perhaps the most sincerely...

...spirit, at the manifestations of which they are themselves, perhaps, the most sincerely astonished,— for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age." But speaking of Byron in his human capacity. The Byron of England and Geneva, and the Byron of Italy,...

...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...

...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...

...for every bad one — a double pledge for excellence. Poets have been thus described by a poet : " The hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ;...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present."* Who does not recall ||00b's beautiful lines on the votaries of the muse ? " Blessings, be with them,...

...; How noiseless falls the foot of time,f That only treads on flowers. Lines to Lady A. Hamilton. * Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration;...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. — SHELLEY. A Defence of Poetrg. t Noiseless foot of time. All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Se....