 | John Bartlett - 1906 - 1198 páginas
...spread To curtain her sleeping world. Queen Mob. it. Poets are the hierophants of an uuapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.1 A Defence of Poetry. J. HOWARD PAYNE. 1792-1852. 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 páginas
...Joseph Cmk. There is a deity within us who breathes that divine ore by which we are animated. — (Mil. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. — tfhrlley. The inspiration of the sacred Scriptures, as the very word of God, is manifest liy their... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 páginas
...within ne who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated. — Ovid. Poets are the hiérophante oalf. Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea...time.— SP Whipple. Books are embalmed minds.— Bo — Shelley. The inspiration of the »acred Scriptures, as the very word of God, is manifest by their... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 312 páginas
...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...it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Egets are the hieropha^.a of nspiration! t-.Tn»_^irrhra nf th« gigantic wjvjcJTnFiTtiirity cmat.ai]pnp... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 páginas
...Shelley in his " Defence of Poetry" also has a very similar thought : " Poets are the hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present." Cicero in his "Divinatio" had already said, "Thus, in the beginning the world was so made that certain... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1912 - 522 páginas
...höherentwicklung zeigt. Dem wahren dichter ist ja „prophecy an attribute of poetry" (PrW. III 104). Denn „poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present" (PrW. III 144). Auch Shelley „beholds the future in the present" (PrW. III 104). Er läßt uns einen... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 páginas
...grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. Quten Mob. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows whic futurity casts upon the present.1 A Defence of i J. HOWARD PAYNE. 1792-1852. 'Mid pleasures and... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 páginas
...liter I. cap. 52. Coming events cast their shadows before. — CAMPBELL : L«chiiTt Warning. Poe's are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration;...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. — SIIKI.I.KY: A l>eftnct nf Pottry. 2 "A I'hrase," says Coleridge, "which I have borrowed from a... | |
 | William Henry Schofield - 1920 - 408 páginas
...Mysteriously from his lips and breast he breathes Jove." * " Poets," said Shelley, with like transport, " are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration;...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present." Though both these great writers may have had to struggle against a tendency to martyrize themselves,... | |
 | Daniel Lash Marsh - 1920 - 266 páginas
...countrymen. loves, was truly in James Whitcomb Riley. Shelley says that "Poets are the hierophants of unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present." Possessors of this spirit of song are all one tribe, whether they be harpers among the herdsmen, prophets... | |
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It is impossible to / read the compositions of the most celebrated 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 comprehensive... 
