 | 1843 - 632 pages
...to say. From this elementary truth, he proceeded to the more abstruse and questionable tenet, that ' no man can be a very great poet who is not ' also a great philosopher.' To what muse the highest honour is justly due, and what exercises of the poetic faculty ought to command,... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1834 - 340 pages
...in their effusions ; dwelling, as they did, in a region of poetical sentiment which did not permit them to walk upon the common earth, or to breathe...narrow limits. He was in knowledge merely a man of Belles-lettres ; nor does he appear at any time to have betaken himself to such studies as would have... | |
 | 1834 - 566 pages
...Taylor will be thought to have advanced a startling proposition, though it is a very old truth, that no man can be a very great poet, who is not also a great philosopher. The philosophy which is found in the page of Shakspeare is, indeed, as wonderful as his genius. It... | |
 | THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CRITICAL JOURNAL - 1843 - 672 pages
...to say. From this elementary truth, he proceeded to the more abstruse and questionable tenet, that ' no man can be a very great poet who is not ' also a great philosopher.' To what muse the highest honour is justly due, and what exercises of the poetic faculty ought to command,... | |
 | sir Henry Taylor - 1844 - 352 pages
...understand, and sufficiently explains the growth of his taste. Had he united a philosophical intellect with his peculiarly poetical temperament, he would probably...narrow limits. He was in knowledge merely a man of Belleslettres ; nor does he appear at any time to have betaken himself to such studies as would have... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 350 pages
...to say. From this elementary truth, he proceeded to the more abstruse and questionable tenet, that "no man can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." To what muse the highest honour is justly due, and what exercises of the poetic faculty ought to command,... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 362 pages
...to say. From this elementary truth, he proceeded to the more abstruse and questionable tenet, that "no man can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." To what muse the highest honour is justly due, and what exercises of the poetic faculty ought to command,... | |
 | DOUGLAS JERROLD - 1848 - 578 pages
...understand, and sufficiently explains the growth of his taste. " Had he united a philosophical intellect with his peculiarly poetical temperament, he would probably...very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." And again, amidst some most just and penetrating remarks, he thus briefly, but ably, characterises... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1848 - 576 pages
...understand, and sufficiently explains the growth of his taste. " Had he united a philosophical intellect with his peculiarly poetical temperament, he would probably...very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." And again, amidst some most just and penetrating remarks, he thus briefly, but ably, characterises... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1848 - 578 pages
...peculiarly poetical temperament, he would probably have been the greatest poet of his age. But 110 man can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." And again, amidst some most just and penetrating remarks, he thus briefly, but ably, characterises... | |
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Had he united a philosophical intellect to his peculiarly poetical temperament, he would probably have been the greatest poet of his age. But no man can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher. Whatever Lord Byron's natural powers may... 
