 Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire;...  The Gay Science - Page 325by Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 353 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...astonished at its manifestations ; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the...express what they understand not ; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 368 pages
...astonished at its manifestations ; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors...express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - English drama - 1840 - 346 pages
...a beautiful passage on the influence of the poetic spirit, he says — " Poets are the hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the...; the words which express what they understand not ; tho trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 572 pages
...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...express what they understand not ; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...manifestations, for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hiérophante Aï S = kl o ᓫb ;*> f $ jҲ Q ; ; q , k < ђ . j ... a_N e 3 !O 6R\ b > E l!h̺4JBm mC ?n % ,3~` 6W5ʨ(e ,; sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...manifestations, for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hiérophante d assist, or relieve, or remember me ; but my friends,...then, 0 Chinvang, to wear out the wretched remains of sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 360 pages
...British poets, too, the priesthood shared, And every hallowed Druid was a bard." COWPER. .' Poets are the Hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors...express what they understand not, the trumpets which sing to hattle, and feel not what they inspire, the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 pages
...British poets, too, the priesthood shared, And every hallowed Druid was a bard.'' COWPEB. " Poets are the Hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors...express what they understand not, the trumpets which sing to hattle, and feel not what they inspire, the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets... | |
 | John William Lester - English literature - 1847 - 376 pages
...year, we write " Plagiarisms." Would that it had been otherwise! POLL OK. " Poets are the hieroplmnts of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the...express what they understand not ; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 pages
...the poetic spirit, he says—" Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; themirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are... | |
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