 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 oldal
...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 oldal
...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | Norman Van Pelt Levis - 1892 - 198 oldal
...from the beginning beautiful. "It is not meters, but a meter-making argument, that makes a poem — a thought so passionate and alive that, like the spirit of a plant or animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. "Doubt not, O poet,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 oldal
...Griswold. It is not metres, but a metre-making agreement, that makes a poem, — a thought so paseionatc and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of it< own, and adorns nature with a new thing. — Emerson. Poetry Is the art of substituting shadows,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 248 oldal
...more thrilling than that of sound. ' It is not metres but a metre-making argument that makes a poem ; a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.' * Aristotle, in the... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 oldal
...revelation. " For it is not metres," he says, " but a metremaking argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." Again in "Merlin," he says: — "Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not... | |
 | Lewis Freeman Mott - 1900 - 22 oldal
...clothe ideal thought winged with emotion, " a thought," to quote the oracle delivered by Emerson, " a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." The doctrine that great poetry must teach great truths is, perhaps, nowhere better illustrated than... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 oldal
...revelation. " For it is not metres," he says, " but a metremaking argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." Again in " Merlin," he says : — "Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 376 oldal
...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | Thomas Rain - 1904 - 246 oldal
...the body make.'' "It is not metre," says Emerson, " but a metre making argument that makes a poem — a thought so passionate and alive, that like the spirit...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing/' All this Browning knew. But he carried the principle of it too far ; using the liberty it gave him... | |
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. 
