 | 1881 - 510 pages
...one who admires poetry thinks he can write it. The more's the pity ! " " Poetry," says Leigh Hunt, " is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and...modulating its language on the principle of variety and uniformity. Its means are whatever the universe contains, and its ends pleasure and exaltation."... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...shared by all the world, but as the operation of that feeling, such as we see it in the poet's book, is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty and...contains ; and its ends, pleasure and exaltation. Poetry stands between nature and convention, keeping alive among us the enjoyment of the external and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...shared by all the world, but as the operation of that feeling, such as we see it in the poet's book, is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty and...universe contains; and its ends, pleasure and exaltation. ^rPoetry stands between nature and convention, keeping alive among us the enjoyment of the external... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 656 pages
...shared by all the world, but as the operation of that feeling, such as we see it in the poet's book, is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and...contains; and its ends , pleasure and exaltation. Poetry stands between nature and convention, keeping alive among us the enjoyment of the external and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...shared by all the world, but as the operation of that feeling, such as we see it in the poet's book, is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty and...universe contains; and its ends, pleasure and exaltation. Poetry stands between nature and convention, keeping alive among us the enjoyment of the external and... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1845 - 690 pages
...shared by all the world, but as the operation of that feeling, such as we see it in the poet's book, is the utterance of -a passion for truth, beauty,...universe contains; and its ends, pleasure and exaltation. Poetry stands between nature and convention, keeping alive among us the enjoyment of the external and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...shared by all the world, but as the operation of that feeling, such as we see it in the poet's book, is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and...the universe contains ; and its ends, pleasure and exaltationi Poetry stands between nature and convention, keeping alive among us the enjoyment of the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...isjthe_ulterancfi_of a passion for truth, beau^_and_£ower, embodying and illustrating its conceptions _ by imagination and fancy, and modulating its language...universe contains; and its ends, pleasure and exaltation. Poetry stands between nature and convention, keeping alive among us the enjoyment of the external and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...feeling, such as we see it in the poet's book, is the utterance of a passion forjtruth, beauty.and power, embodying and illustrating its conceptions...imagination and fancy, and modulating its language on the princijjlejpf variety in uniformity. Its means artTwhalever" the universe contains; and its ends, pleasure... | |
 | University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...offers in answer to the chief but comprehensive question — " What is Poetry ?" Poetry is for him " the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and power, embodying and illustrating its conception by Imagination and Fancy, and modulating its language on the principle of variety in uniformity.... | |
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... the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and power, embodying and illustrating its conceptions by imagination and fancy, and modulating its language on the principle of variety in uniformity. 
