...unhesitatingly assert, supplies the highest subjects of Culture-study, because it is, as Wordsworth says, " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." To poetry, therefore, let us turn. Setting aside the poetry of the Scriptures, (though...

...itself with those ideas and appearances which either inform or typify human enterprise at its highest. " Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, the impassioned expression that is in the face of all science." The class of poetry, then, to set before boys is that — whether...

...grace of movement which you demand for your drives on the boulevard and in the park. Wordsworth says, "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge,...impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." And Coleridge, "Poetry is the blossom and fragrance of all human knowledge, human thought,...

...which they uttered their inmost spirit to the world? Remember his own noble claim for poetry as ' the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, the impassioned expression which is on the face of all science '. 'Of genius in the fine arts,' he says, ' the only infallible sign is...

...which they uttered their inmost spirit to the world ? Remember his own noble claim for poetry as ' the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, the impassioned expression which is on the face of all science '. 'Of genius in the fine arts," he says, ' the only infallible sign is...

...beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge,...impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. He looks before and after ; he is the rock of defence for human nature, carrying everywhere...

...up to any poetical ideals in real life ; his life was not even permeated by poetry. Of verse as "the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science," as Wordsworth expressed it ; of the poetry which is gradually assuming the functions...

...know on earth and all ye need to know " ; or, in Wordsworth's more carefully formulated statement, " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge,...impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." These are intelligible but obvious accentuations of a special bias. Neither Keats nor...

...captures ideality alive, whereas the philosopher can only kill ajld dissect it. As Wordsworth phrases it, poetry is "the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge;...impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." Philosophy is useful to the poet only as it presents facts for his synthesis; Shelley...

...at, least of "passion recollected in tranquillity* for "poetry is the image of man and nature, the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." The effect of Christianity, this new romantic ferment, on the subsequent history of literature...