 | 1840 - 424 pàgines
...poetry, in the sense of one of the happiest definitions which we have seen ; " Poetry," says Shelley, "is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." Pleasure, without mixture of misgiving or alarm ; beauty ; love ; clear conscience ; and fresh, perennial... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 pàgines
...estimate of his virtues and his genius than has hitherto been done. We find, in the verse of a poet, " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds*." But this is not enough—we desire to know the man. We desire to learn how much of the sensibility... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pàgines
...estimate of his virtues and his genius than has hitherto been done. We find, in the verse of a poet, "the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds."* But this is not enough — we desire to know the man. We desire to learn how much of the sensibility... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pàgines
...estimate of his virtues and his genius than has hitherto been done. « We find, in the verse of a poet, " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds."* But this is not enough — we desire to know the man. We desire to learn how much of the sensibility... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 310 pàgines
...come. It is built on, and of, and in, and for happiness. " It is the record," as Shelley has it, " of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." True, it often deals with sorrow, but none of our sorrows are without a ray of comfort ; and as black... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 330 pàgines
...come. It is built on, and of, and in, and for happiness. " It is the record," as Shelley has it, " of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." True, it often deals with sorrow, but none of our sorrows are without a ray of comfort ; and as black... | |
 | 1853 - 604 pàgines
...is, as in the strictest sense factitious and artificial. Shelley, indeed, very sweetly calls poetry " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds;" but then this only refers us farther back in time for the poetry, which .certainly does not consist... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 pàgines
...as, in the strictest sense, factitious and artificial. Shelley, indeed, very sweetly calls poetry " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds ; " but then this only refers us farther back in time for the poetry, which certainly does not consist... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 pàgines
...as, in the strictest sense, factitious and artificial. Shelley, indeed, very sweetly calls poetry " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds ; " but then this only refers us farther back in time for the poetry, which certainly does not consist... | |
 | 1892 - 880 pàgines
...passion are touched by a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form." Shelley's description of poetry, as " the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best men," strikes the same key, and fits prose, especially of the imaginative sort which... | |
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Shelley's definition of Poetry as the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds. 
