 The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.  The New Englander - Page 6321875Full view - About this book
 | John Elder - American poetry - 1985 - 256 pages
...our fellow-beings. The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes it in his solitude; the poet, singing a song in which...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in... | |
 | Kaushal Kishore Sharma - Aesthetics - 1988 - 142 pages
...echoe Wordsworth's belief expressed about a century before in the following words : The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge .... ("Preface" to the Second Edition of Lyrical... | |
 | E. A. Corbett - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 300 pages
...imagination to the aid of reason." There is the oft-quoted passage from Wordsworth: "The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in solitude. The poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence... | |
 | Don H. Bialostosky - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 336 pages
...in the spirit of life that is in him..., singing a song in which all human beings join with him ... in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion" (LB 255—59). Though de Man's selections from The Prelude have emphasized the reflective moments of... | |
 | Richard Yeo - History - 2003 - 304 pages
...Lyrical Ballads in 1800 Wordsworth contrasted the 'Man of Science' with the Poet. The first, he wrote, 'seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude'; the second sings 'a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in... | |
 | Rutherford Aris - Technology & Engineering - 1994 - 300 pages
...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion" (p. 253). (I owe the reference to this passage [and, indeed, many other good things] to my colleague... | |
 | Nicholas Roe - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 344 pages
...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.fi The poet's knowledge, Wordsworth argues, is a 'necessary', 'natural', 'inalienable' fact... | |
 | Regina Hewitt - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 254 pages
...Poetry deals directly with human relations; science is only indirectly involved: "The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet . . . rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion" (Prose 1: 141).... | |
 | Paul Keen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 318 pages
...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible and hourly companion. (396) Critics who portray Wordsworth as the prophet of the egotistical sublime,... | |
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