 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 244 pages
...sincerely astonished at its manifestations ; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration;...which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 368 pages
...sincerely astonished at its manifestations ; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration;...which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 684 pages
...age. Poets, says one of that * Adonaii. sacred brotherhood, are the hierophanu of an unapprehendecl inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows...which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Poets are the hiérophante of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows whicli futurity casts upon the present; the words which express...which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire ; the in-fluence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.'... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 772 pages
...it i» less their spirit than the spirit of the age- Poets ere the hiérophante of an unapprchcnded inspiration : the mirrors of the gigantic shadows...which futurity casts upon the present; the words which exprvM what they understand not ; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1845 - 246 pages
...sincerely astonished at its manifestations ; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...gigal» tic shadows which futurity castsupqn_the_Dresent ж the words which express what they understanfi not ; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 356 pages
...Hence British poets, too, the priesthood shared, And every hallowed Druid was a bard. ' ' COWPEB. " Poets are the Hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration,...which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire, the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 pages
...Hence British poets, too, the priesthood shared, And every hallowed Druid was a bard.” COWPER. “ Poets are the Hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration,...which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire, the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 360 pages
...; Hence British poets, too, the priesthood shared, And every hallowed Druid was a hard." COWPER. " Poets are the Hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration,...which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire, the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."... | |
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a beneficial change in opinion or institution is poetry. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present ; the words which express what they understand not ; the trumpets... 
