 | Sir Henry Taylor - English literature - 1877 - 494 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 - 1883 - 464 pages
...way I go with God to speed ! Preface, pages l2, 13. " Poetry of which, xense is not the /«MM," fyc. Till this moment, when recurring for another purpose...not aware for how many of my tenets I was indebted tn those admirable speeimens of philosophical critieism. The root of the matter is to be found in them.... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - American literature - 1888 - 264 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... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 460 pages
...which the passionate reason of man does not preside in all its strength as well as in all its ardours, though it may be excellent of its kind, will not long be reputed to be poetry of the highest order. However dubious in application to Byron and absurd in application to Shelley, this canon is good in... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 458 pages
...which the passionate reason of man does not preside in all its strength as well as in all its ardours, though it may be excellent of its kind, will not long be reputed to be poetry of the highest order. However dubious in application to Byron and absurd in application to Shelley, this canon is good in... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1920 - 456 pages
...which the passionate reason of man does not preside in all its strength as well as in all its ardours, though it may be excellent of its kind, will not long be reputed to be poetry of the highest order. However dubious in application to Byron and absurd in application to Shelley, this canon is good in... | |
 | Andrew Rutherford - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 536 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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1834 - 566 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... | |
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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,... 
