 Could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated...  A Defense of Poetry - Page 39by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 86 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 pages
...in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the...that the finest passages of poetry are produced by labour and study. The toil and the delay recommended by critics, can be justly interpreted to mean... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results; ' but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the...present"? day, whether it is not an error to assert 0iat the ' finest passages of poetry are produced by labour and study. The toil and the delay recommended... | |
 | 1841 - 540 pages
...of a first reading by strict reviewing and alteration. " I appeal," says he, " to the greatest poet of the present day, whether it is not an error to...passages of poetry are produced by labor and study." (Essays, I. 56.) Still, the finest passages evidently will be written by him who, with equal faculties,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but whgn composition begins, inspiration is already on the...that the finest passages of poetry are produced by labour and study. The toil and the delay recommended by critics, can be justly interpreted to mean... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 pages
...its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the...that the finest passages of poetry are produced by labour and study. The toil and the delay recommended by critics, can be justly interpreted to mean... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...its original pnrity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the...that the finest passages of poetry are produced by labour and study. The toil and the delay recommended by critics, can be justly interpreted to mean... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the...probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of -ยป0 the poet. I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day, whether it is not an error to assert... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 444 pages
...its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry I _-| \that has ever been communicated to the world is probably u feeble shadow of the original conceptions... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 pages
...impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is aiready on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that...probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of <=i the poet. I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day, whether it is not an error to assert... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 pages
...its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the...that the finest passages of poetry are produced by labour and study. The toil and the delay recommended by critics, can be justly interpreted to mean... | |
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