 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...  The Gay Science - Page 324by Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 353 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Medwin - 1833 - 196 pages
...systems relative 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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Medwin - Poets, English - 1833 - 200 pages
...systems relative 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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...abjure, they are yet .CpmpeJlfid to serve, the power which is seated on Jbejhrone of their nwn anuí. It is impossible to read the compositions of the most...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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...imposable tu read the compositions of the most ceM>ra¡pl writers of the present day without being startM with the electric life which burns within their words. They measure the circumference and *ou.iii the depths of human nature with a comprenons) \v and all-penetrating spirit, and they are tbems«... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1868 - 594 pages
...the influence which is moved, but moves not. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world ! They measure the circumference, and sound the depths of human nature with a comprehensive, all-penetrating spirit, at the manifestations of which they are themselves, perhaps, the most sincerely... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 824 pages
...abjure, they are yet compelled to serve the power which is" seated on the throne of their own soul. It is impossible to read the compositions of the most...comprehensive and all-penetrating spirit, and they arc themselves perhaps the most sincerely astonished at its manifestations, for it is less their spirit... | |
 | Timothy Harley - History - 1885 - 326 pages
...disclosures ; and, if we may venture to adopt with slight alteration a sentence of Shelley, we will say: "It is impossible to read the compositions of the...measure the circumference and sound the depths of nature with a comprehensive and all-penetrating spirit, and they are themselves perhaps the most sincerely... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Stanburrough Cook - Poetry - 1890 - 120 pages
...abjure, they are yet 15 compelled to serve the power which is seated on the throne of their own soul. It is impossible to read the compositions of the most...of the present day without being startled with the electric—liffi which burns within their 20 words. {They'measureuhe circumference and sound the depths... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1891 - 132 pages
...writers of the present day without being startled with the electric life which burns within their 20 words. They measure the circumference and sound the...manifestations ; for it is less their spirit than the spi 25 of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Digital images - 1891 - 124 pages
...abjure, they are yet J 5 compelled to serve the power which is seated on the throne of their own soul. It is impossible to read the compositions of the most...startled with the electric life which burns within their 20 words. They measure the circumference and sound the depths of human nature with a comprehensive... | |
| |
