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" The breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, The impassioned expression Which is in the countenance of all science. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 328
1829
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The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and ..., Volume 16

1834 - 512 pages
...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 which is in the countenance of all science." There is impassioned poetry in astronomy, and Milton breathed it. There is impassioned poetry in botany,...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...under Shakspeare's touch, would have started into Promethean life and energy ? Thus it appears lhat Poetry has a language of her own. To identify her...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...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 47

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1887 - 490 pages
...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,...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 6

Theology - 1849 - 838 pages
...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,...
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The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 13

English periodicals - 1842 - 572 pages
...Wordsworth have long taught, the true antithesis to poetry is not prose, but science. " Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of " all knowledge ; the 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,...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 6

Bible - 1849 - 848 pages
...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,...
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Lecture on the Writings and Genius of Byron: Before the Carlisle Mechanics ...

John Clark Ferguson - 1856 - 90 pages
...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...
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Gongora: An Historical & Critical Essay on the Times of Philip III ..., Volume 1

Spain - 1862 - 382 pages
...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 knowledge ; the impassioned...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...
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Gongora. With translations [in verse].

Edward Churton - 1862 - 378 pages
...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 knowledge ; the impassioned...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...
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Letters to Young Ladies

Lydia Howard Sigourney - Women - 1863 - 308 pages
...dependant on fugitive causes." According to Wordsworth, who must be admitted as a judge, " It is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned...expression which is in the countenance of all science." You are doubtless ready to pronounce a well-disciplined literary taste, as worth the labour of acquisition....
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