 | 1818 - 598 pages
...study the principles of poetry, act upon them all our lives, like Mojiere's Bourgeois Gentilkomme, who had always spoken prose without knowing it. The...at hide-and-seek, or repeats the story of Jack the Giant-killer; the shepherd-boy is a poet when he first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 pages
...that expands, rarities, refines, raises our whole being: without it " man's life is poor as beast's." Man is a poetical animal : ^and those of us who do...principles of poetry, act upon them all our lives, like Moliere's' Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who had always spoken prose without knowing it. The child is a poet,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 pages
...that expands, rarifies, refines, raises our whole being: without it " man's life is poor as beast's." Man is a poetical animal : and those of us who do...principles of poetry, act upon them all our lives, like Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who had always spoken prose without knowing it. The child is a poet,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 358 pages
...that expands, rarefies, refines, raises our whole being : without it " man's life is poor as beast's." Man is a poetical animal : and those of us who do...principles of poetry, act upon them all our lives, like Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who had always spoken prose without knowing it. The child is a poet... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...that expands, rarefies, refines, raises our whole being : without it " man's life is poor as beast's." Man is a poetical animal : and those of us who do...principles of poetry, act upon them all our lives, like Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who had always spoken prose without knowing it. The child is a poet,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...that expands, rarefies, refines, raises our whole being : without it ' man's life is poor as beast's.' Man is a poetical animal : and those of us who do...principles of poetry act upon them all our lives, like Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who had always spoken prose without knowing it. The child is a poet,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1832 - 824 pages
...— without it man's life is poor as beasts' ;" and he eloquently illustrates the definition, — ." The child is a poet, in fact, when he first plays at hide-and..seek, or repeats the tale of Jack the Giant Killer ; the shepherd lad is a poet, when he first crowns his mistress with... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1844 - 476 pages
...it. Poetry is that fine particle within us, that expands, rarefies, refines, raises our whole being Those of us who do not study the principles of poetry, act upon them all our lives, like Molière's Bourgeois gentilhomme, who had always spoken prose without knowing it. — HAZLITT. The... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...that expands, rarefies, refines, raises our whole being : without it " man's hfe is poor as beasts.' " Man is a poetical animal : and those of us who do...principles of poetry act upon them all our lives, like Moliere's Bourgeois Getttilkomme, who had always spoken prose without knowing it. The child is a poet,... | |
 | 1844 - 836 pages
...that expands, rarefies, refines, raises our whole being ; without it "man's life is poor as beasts." Man is a poetical animal ; and those of us who do...principles of poetry act upon them all our lives, like Molicre's Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who had always spoken prose without knowing it. The child is a poet... | |
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Man is a poetical animal: and those of us who do not study the principles of poetry, act upon them all our lives, like Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme, who had always spoken prose without knowing it. The child is a poet, in fact, when he first plays at... 
