 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 462 pages
...incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with Duty or with Truth. A few words, however, in explanation. That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the...that pleasurable elevation, or excitement, of the toui, which we recognise as the Poetic Sentiment, and which is so easily distinguished from Truth,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - American literature - 1853 - 522 pages
...incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with Duty or with Truth. A few words, however, in explanation. That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the...pleasurable elevation, or excitement, of the soul, which we recognise as the Poetic Sentiment, and which is so easily distinguished from Truth, which is the satisfaction... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1857 - 526 pages
...few words, however, in explanation. That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevatmg, and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from...pleasurable elevation, or excitement, of the soul, which we recognise as the Poetic Sentiment, and which is so easily distinguished from Truth, which is the satisfaction... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1857 - 540 pages
...has no concern what!-— ever"either with Duty or with Truth. A few words, however, in explanation. That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense, q— —. is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the Beautiful. In the contemplation of... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 332 pages
...incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with Duty or with Truth. A few words, however, in explanation. That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the...possible to attain that pleasurable elevation, or 227 excitement, of the soul, which we recognise as the Poetic Sentiment, and which is so easily distinguished... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 388 pages
...either with Duty or with Truth. A few words, however, in explanation. That pleasure whieh is at onee the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the eontemplation of the Beautiful. In the eontemplation of Beauty we alone find it possible to attain... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - History - 1859 - 302 pages
...incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with Doty or with Truth. A few words, however, in explanation. That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the...distinguished from Truth, which is the satisfaction of the Eeason, or from Passion, which is the excitement of the heart. I make Beauty, therefore — using the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1863 - 530 pages
...explanation. That pleasure which is nt once tho most pure, tho most elevatmg, and the most intense, в derived,' I maintain, from the contemplation of the Beautiful. In the contemplation of Beauty wo alono find it possible to attain that-pleasn rabio elevation, tír excitement, of the soul, which... | |
 | Phrenology - 1870 - 936 pages
...poetry." Poe : •' I would define the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty." Again : " In the contemplation of beauty we alone find it possible...distinguished from truth, which is the satisfaction of reason, or from passion, which is the excitement of the heart." The Zoroastrian definition of poetry,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 526 pages
...few words, however, in explanation. That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevatmg, and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from...pleasurable elevation, or excitement, of the soul, which we recognise as the Poetic Sentiment, and which is so easily distinguished from Truth, which is the satisfaction... | |
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the Beautiful. 
