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
| Paul Keen - 1999 - 299 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. (396) Critics who portray Wordsworth as the prophet of the egotistical sublime,... | |
| David Bell - 1999 - 248 Seiten
...world and has its own validity. The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; ... the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings...of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion ... In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs, in spite... | |
| Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 Seiten
...than of science. "The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor," while the poet "rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion." Moreover, "The objects of the Poet's thoughts are everywhere," even "though the eyes and senses of... | |
| Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 Seiten
...society.36 Though it could not make anything in particular happen, poetry could be, for Wordsworth, "the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the...impassioned expression which is in the countenance of Science ... The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it... | |
| David Norton - 2000 - 526 Seiten
...that is favourable to literary appreciation of the Bible. Just as the Bible is the book of truth, so 'poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge'; it 'is the first and last' — might one not say, the alpha and omega? - 'of all knowledge'. W'ordsworth brings... | |
| Zong-qi Cai - 2001 - 386 Seiten
...which it appeals, and receives them from the same ttibunal . . . Poetry is the breath and finer spitit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the counrenance of all Science. . . . Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge.14 It is inreresting... | |
| Hans Werner Breunig - 2002 - 356 Seiten
...to us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connectmg us with our fellow-bemgs The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.16 Wordsworth selbst hat in diesem 'Preface' zu den Lyrical Ballads von 1802 die Lyrik als... | |
| Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 604 Seiten
...the important distinction, or complementarity, between the scientist and the poet: The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.28 The truth sought by the scientist is cold and uncompanionable; that sought by the poet is... | |
| Joseph Bizup - 2003 - 260 Seiten
...Science is pleasure," Wordsworth asserts, before differentiating between them: "The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion." In Wordsworth's eyes, the knowledge of the poet is universal or "necessary," while that of the scientist... | |
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 Seiten
...testimony^ but carried alive into the heart by passion; truth which is its own testimony . . . [p. 15] Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science. [p. 16] And of the poet: He is a man speaking to men.37 [p. 13] He... | |
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