...what Prose ath no voice to utter. She is (as Wordsworth himself elsewhere most beautifully says) " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge — the impassioned...expression, which is in the countenance of all science." Is it not a contradiction thus to describe her, yet deny that she speaks a language accordantwith her...

...philosophy can be the field of emotion, she can be poetic. Thus we give poetry an illimitable range. " She is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge: the...expression which is in the countenance of all science." There is impassioned poetry in astronomy, and Milton breathed it. There is impassioned poetry in botany,...

...Prose hath no voice to utter. She is (as Wordsworth himself elsewhere most beautifully says) " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge — the impassioned...expression, which is in the countenance of all science." Is it not a contradiction thus to describe her, yet deny that she speaks a language accordant with...

...amplitude of mind, And Reason in her most exalted mood." In his preface to his Poems, he calls poetry the " breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned...expression which is in the countenance of all science." As the human countenance has expressions and spiritual meanings which are beyond physiology to explain,...

...Coleridge and Wordsworth have long taught, the true antithesis to poetry is not prose, but science. " Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of " all knowledge...impassioned expression which is in the " countenance of science/' Thoughts do and must abound in all good poetry, but they are there not for their own sake,...

...its interior and spiritual meaning, its beauty, its pathos and its passion. Poetry is indeed " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned...expression which is in the countenance of all science." The last and deepest insight we get into nature, is when we read it religiously, as a divine revelation,...

...its interior and spiritual meaning, its beauty, its pathos and its passion. Poetry is indeed " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned...expression which is in the countenance of all science." The last and deepest insight we get into nature, is when we read it relii/iousty, as a divine revelation,...

...one who feels great truths and utters them." Wordsworth in one of his essays depicts poetry as " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, the impassioned...expression, which is in the countenance of all science." " Poetry," says Shelley, " lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar things...

...Philosophy can be the field of emotion, she can be poetic. Thus we give Poetry an illimitable range. She is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge — the impassioned expression of all science. There is impassioned poetry in astronomy, and Milton breathed it. There is impassioned...

...which men express their purposes in prose. But he says also, much to the same effect as Cervantes, that " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all...expression, which is in the countenance of all science :" and that the poet's subjects " will naturally, and on fit occasion, lead him to passions, the language...