 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
 | Hugh Miller - 1891 - 100 Seiten
...with poetry, — and here I return to the point with which I started. " Poetry," says Wordsworth, " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression in the face of all science." If he be not endowed with any large measure of that " finer spirit," the... | |
 | Edward Caird - 1892 - 314 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, science ceases to be a merely external thing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 214 Seiten
...connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; 1 he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet,...presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly 15 companion. (Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned- expression... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 Seiten
...British aristocracy. — Bancroft. Modern poets put a great deal of water in their ink. — Goethe. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science. — Wordsworth. The intellect colored by the feelings. — Professor... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 258 Seiten
...from the slower, statelier, graver movement proper to drama or epic. ' Poetry,' said Wordsworth, ' is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, it is the impassioned expression which is on the face of all science.' In the nature of things, therefore, its foundations are laid ; and as... | |
 | John Macmillan Brown - 1894 - 436 Seiten
...mind of man as naturally the mirror of the fairest and most interesting properties of nature " ; " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge " ; " it is the impassioned expression that is in the countenance of all science"; "poetry is the first and last of all knowledge; it is as... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 368 Seiten
...eternal mystery. Long before the marvels of our modern time, Wordsworth uttered a remarkable prophecy. " The man of Science," he wrote, "seeks truth as a remote...knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is on the countenance of Science. ... If the labours of men of science should ever create any material... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 368 Seiten
...eternal mystery. Long before the marvels of our modern time, Wordsworth uttered a remarkable prophecy. " The man of Science," he wrote, "seeks truth as a remote...knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is on the countenance of Science. ... If the labours of men of science should ever create any material... | |
 | 1895 - 416 Seiten
...'s LOST V. 2. rriHE 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. WORDSWORTH. THOSE gipsies, so your thoughts I scan, Are less, the... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 Seiten
...his insight, that which he has to teach us of God and man and nature. " Poetry", said Wordsworth, " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it...impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science."2 And Wordsworth is echoed by Shelley.3 But it is again to 1 See Hugo's William Shakespeare,... | |
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