 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1848 - 578 pages
...of mankind, will not find it possible to work upon them continuously without a diminishing effect. Poetry of which sense is not the basis, though it...long be reputed to be poetry of the highest order. It may move the feelings and charm the fancy ; but failing; to satisfy the understanding, it will not... | |
 | DOUGLAS JERROLD - 1848 - 578 pages
...of mankind, will not find it possible to work upon them continuously without a diminishing effect. Poetry of which sense is not the basis, though it...long be reputed to be poetry of the highest order. It may move the feelings and charm the fancy ; but failing to satisfy the understanding, it will not... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1848 - 576 pages
...of mankind, will not find it possible to work upon them continuously without a diminishing effect. Poetry of which sense is not the basis, though it...long be reputed to be poetry of the highest order. It may move the feelings and charm the fancy ; but failing to satisfy the understanding, it will not... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1849 - 352 pages
...idle stimulation them that read, Then forth upon my way I go with God to speed : PREFACE, PAGE XJI. ** Poetry of which sense is not the basis, though it...for another purpose to Mr. Wordsworth's preface to hie poems, and to Mr. Coleridge's remarks upon them in his "Biogrephia Literaria," I was not aware... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1852 - 478 pages
...which the passionate reason of Man does not preside in all its strength as well as all its ardours, — though it may be excellent of its kind, will not long be reputed to be poetry of the highest order. It may move the feelings and charm the fancy ; but failing to satisfy the understanding, it will not... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1876 - 832 pages
...which the passionate reason of man does not preside in all its strength as well as all its ardours, though it may be excellent of its kind, will not long be reputed to be poetry of the highest order. It may move the feelings and charm the fancy ; but failing to satisfy the understanding, it will not... | |
 | 1883 - 620 pages
...its circumstances, common as well as romantic ; " and he comes to the conclusion that such poetry, " though it may be excellent of its kind, will not long be reputed to be poetry of the highest order. It may move the feelings and charm the fancy, but failing to satisfy the understanding it will not... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1863 - 472 pages
...way I go with God to speed ! Preface, pages I2, I3. "Poetry of which sense is not the basis," fye. Till this moment, when recurring for another purpose...poems, and to Mr. Coleridge's remarks upon them in his "Biograpbia Literaria," I was not aware for how many of my tenets I was indebted to those admirable... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - English drama - 1864 - 354 pages
...which the passionate reason of Man does not preside in all its strength as well as all its ardours, — though it may be excellent of its kind, will not long be reputed to be poetry of the highest order. It may move the feelings and charm the fancy ; but failing to satisfy the understanding, it will not... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1876 - 376 pages
...passionate reason of Man does not preside in all its strength as well as all its ardours,—though it may be excellent of its kind, will not long be reputed to be poetry of the highest order. It may move the feelings and charm the fancy; but failing to satisfy the understanding, it will not... | |
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Writers, however, whose appeal is made so exclusively to the excitabilities of mankind, will not find it possible to work upon them continuously without a diminishing effect. Poetry of which sense is not the basis, though it may be excellent of its kind,... 
