 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 Seiten
...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 Seiten
...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal... | |
 | 1854 - 694 Seiten
...— that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — •' л thought so passiouato and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, nuil adorns nature with a new thing." How plainly Mr. Willis is thought... | |
 | 1845 - 670 Seiten
...the songs of the nations." — " It is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." — " In our way of talking we... | |
 | 1849 - 448 Seiten
...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 516 Seiten
...argument, that makes a poem — that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — " a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." How plainly Mr. Willis is thought... | |
 | 1853 - 538 Seiten
...argument, that makes a poem — that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — " a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." How plainly Mr. Willis is thought... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 Seiten
...metre-making argument, that makes a poem; that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — " leasure has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." How plainly Mr. Willis is thought... | |
 | 1855 - 448 Seiten
...something of our own; and so mis-write the poem." Here also is another definition of true poetry ; — "a thought so passionate and alive, that like the spirit of a plant, or an animal, it has an arehiteeture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." Bnt in aeeordanee with the quotation... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 Seiten
...justifies himself by saying, "It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing," And yet, strange as the metre... | |
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem — a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. 
