 The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor ; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude ; the poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.  Anne Gilchrist, Her Life and Writings - Seite 331von Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1887 - 368 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1875 - 966 Seiten
...Manifestation of mind? "The Man of Science,' ' says Wordsworth, in one of his forgotten prefaces, " seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Yet poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 Seiten
...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor ; he...and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer i spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which I „, . is in the countenance of... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1899 - 536 Seiten
...revealer of its beauty, the interpreter of its significance, for, in Wordsworth's own fine phrase, 'Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression that is on the face of all science.' From Wordsworth and Coleridge it is a natural transition to Carlyle,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1880 - 1436 Seiten
...emotional life of man. ' The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor, he cherishes it and loves it in his solitude : the poet, singing a...knowledge : it is the impassioned expression which is on the countenance of all science.' Wherever, in fact, scienc^ ceases to be a merely external thing... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 Seiten
...us. and '-y no habitual acd direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor ; he...the poet, singing a song in which all human beings loin with him, rejoices in ihe presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1881 - 506 Seiten
...intelligibleness, its weight, its liveliness, and its emotional attractions. " Poetry," says Wordsworth, "is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the coxmtenance of all science ; emphatically may it be said of the poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man,... | |
 | Alfred Brunswick - 1884 - 46 Seiten
...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible and hourly companion.') 25te $oefie ift дIeiфfаm bcr Sïtraft aller Äenntmf?, the breath and finer... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1886 - 422 Seiten
...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor ; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion." To know is not enough for man. We may know all about the stars; but that knowledge does not take the... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere - 1887 - 336 Seiten
...Passion was at the root of poetry in Wordsworth's conception of it ; his definition of poetry is — " Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...; it is the impassioned expression which is in the face of all science. " Coleridge also, in his noble and pathetic lines addressed to Wordsworth, characterises... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1889 - 394 Seiten
...connecting us with our fellow-beings. The man of science seeks truth as a remote ami unknown iMjnefaclor ; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude : the poet, singing a song in which all hunun beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.... | |
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