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" ... a word, a trait in the representation of a scene or a passion, will touch the enchanted chord, and reanimate, in those who have ever experienced these emotions, the sleeping, the cold, the buried image of the past. Poetry thus makes immortal all that... "
Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay - Page 327
edited by - 1885 - 367 pages
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom

Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1882 - 856 pages
...says Shelley, " is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Poetry makes immortal all that is best and .most beautiful in the world. Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. Poetry turns all things to loveliness...
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A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...refined organization, but they can colour all that they combine with the evanescent hues of this ethereal world ; a word, a trait in the representation of a...and reanimate, in those who have ever experienced those emotions, the sleep-/ ing, the cold, the buried image of the past. Poetry! thus makes immortal...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments,

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 368 pages
...refined organisation, but they can colour all that they combine with the evanescent hues of this ethereal world ; a word, a trait in the representation of a...and reanimate, in those who have ever experienced those emotions, the sleeping, the cold, the buried image of the past. Poetry thus makes immortal all...
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Cyclopędia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...with the evanescent hues of this ethereal world ; a word, a trait in the representation of a scene or ; vanity those emotions, the sleeping, the cold, the buried image of the past. Poetry thus makes immortal all...
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...organisation, but they can colour all that tliey combiue with the evanescent hues of this ethereal he advice of those pernicious friends with whose interests passion, will touch the enchanted chord, and reanimate, in those who have ever experienced those emotions,...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1845 - 246 pages
...refined organisation, but they can colour all that they combine with the evanescent hues of this ethereal world ; a word, a trait in the representation of a...best and most beautiful in the world ; it arrests the I vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or...
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Blanche de Bourbon, [and other poems].

William H. Jones - 1855 - 280 pages
...fire from those eternal regions where the owlwinged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar. Poetry makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world ; it redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man.2 " For deeds to die however nobly done,...
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The shilling book of beauty, ed. and illustr. by Cuthbert Bede

Edward Bradley - 1856 - 152 pages
...touches. In the words of one* who possessed this fire of Genius in a remarkable degree — " Poetry makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world." In the language of a later but equally youthful Poet, * Shelley. Vide his " Essays." " Poetry is The...
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Half-hours with the freethinkers, ed. by J. Watts, 'Iconoclast', and A. Collins

John Watts - 1857 - 210 pages
...refined organisation, but they can colour all they combine with the evanescent lines of this ethereal world; a word, a trait in the representation of a scene or passion will touch the enchanted chord, and reanimate in those who have ever experienced these emotions,...
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Emily Morton: with sketches from life and critical essays

Charles Westerton - 1859 - 228 pages
...refined organization, but they can colour all that they combine with the evanescent hues of this ethereal world ; a word, a trait in the representation of a scene or passion, will touch the enchanted chord, and re-animate in those who have ever experienced these emotions,...
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