 | 1826 - 548 pàgines
...histories and philosophic theories. The fictions of genius are often the vehicles of the sublimest verities, and its flashes often open new regions of...poetry the letter is falsehood, but the spirit is often prolbundest wisdom. And if truth thus dwells in the boldest fictions of the poet, much more may it... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pàgines
...histories and philosophic theories. The fictions of genius are often the vehicles J of the sublimest verities, and its flashes often open new regions of...new light on the mysteries of our being. In poetry, when the letter is falsehood, the spirit is often profoundest wisdom. And if truth thus dwells in the... | |
 | 1829 - 418 pàgines
...6ctions of genius are often the vehicles of the lublimest verities, and its flashes often open now regions of thought, and throw new light on the mysteries of our being." UNDINE was a water-spirit, the daughter of the Prince of the Mediterranean Sea. Among the peculiarities... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 pàgines
...histories and philosophic theories. The fictions of genius are often the vehicles of the sublimest verities, and its flashes often open new regions of...new light on the mysteries of our being. In poetry, when the letter is falsehood, the spirit is often profoundest wisdom. And if truth thus dwells in the... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 622 pàgines
...histories and philosophic theories. The fictions of genius are often the vehicles of the sublimest verities, and its flashes often open new regions of...new light on the mysteries of our being. In poetry, when the letter is falsehood, the spirit is often profoundest wisdom. And if truth thus dwells in the... | |
 | 1832 - 478 pàgines
...histories and philosophic theories. The fictions of genius are often the vehicles of the sublimest verities, and its flashes often open new regions of...in his delineations of life ; for the present life, wliich is the first stage of the immortal mind, abounds in the materials of poetry, and it is the highest... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 pàgines
...histories and philosophic theories. The fictions of genius are often the vehicles of the sublimest verities, and its flashes often open new regions of...new light on the mysteries of our being. In poetry, when the letter is falsehood, the spirit is often profoundest wisdom. And if truth thus dwells in the... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pàgines
...histories and philosophic theories. The fictions of genius are often the vehicles of the sublimest verities, and its flashes often open new regions of...poetry the letter is falsehood, but the spirit is often the profouudest wisdom. And if truth thus dwells in the boldest fictions of the poet, much more may... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1834 - 626 pàgines
...of genius are often the vehicles of the sublimest verities, and its flashes often open new regipns of thought, and throw new light on the mysteries of our being. In poetry, when the letter is falsehood, the spirit is often profoundest wisdom. And if truth thus dwells in the... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 484 pàgines
...histories and philosophic theories. The fictions of genius are often the vehicles of the sublimest verities, and its flashes often open new regions of...new light on the mysteries of our being. In poetry, when the letter is falsehood, the spirit is often profoundest wisdom. And if truth thus dwells in the... | |
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But, passing over this topic, we would observe, that the complaint against poetry as abounding in illusion and deception, is in the main groundless. In many poems there is more of truth than in many histories and philosophic theories. The fictions of... 
