 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 страници
...grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. Queen Mab. a. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...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... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 страници
...poetry is due to their common dependence upon inspiration for their best qualities. Shelley writes, "Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present." How often it happens that some young artist has "painted better than he knew," and in line with this... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1904 - 108 страници
...sincerely 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 gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the r present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1904 - 108 страници
...for civil and religious liberty. The most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is poetry. At such periods there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned... | |
 | 1906 - 812 страници
...poet's mission to point out the way of aspiration and hope. As Shelley said in his defense of poesy: "poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration;...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present." Vergil, then, had no foregleam of wondrous type or vision fair; yet it was sufficient to rank him among... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1906 - 1198 страници
...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... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 страници
...for civil and religious liberty. The most unfailing herald, companion,' and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution is poetry. At such periods there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 страници
...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... | |
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The most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is poetry. 
