 He is a man speaking to men — a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind...  The Living Age - Page 3151904Full view - About this book
 | Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1897 - 250 pages
...what language is to be expected from him ? He is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 190 pages
...The Poet. " All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. "A poet is a man endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and...soul than are supposed to be common among mankind. " The object of poetry is truth, not individual and local, but general and operative ; not standing... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 578 pages
...And what language is to be expected from him ? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | Florence Bartling - 1901 - 142 pages
...speaking to men, .... endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasn and tenderness, who hps greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive...soul than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 566 pages
...what language is to be expected from him ? He is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | Juvenal - Rome - 1903 - 192 pages
...himself? And what language is to be expected from him ? He is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1909 - 250 pages
...surelier based than on a ready command of beautiful and appropriate speech. The poet, he says, is a man " who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors, English - 1905 - 292 pages
...And what language is to be expected from him ? — He is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | William Morton Payne - English poetry - 1907 - 404 pages
...question, "What is a Poet ?" this answer is given : "He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | Books - 1910 - 482 pages
...And what language is to be expected from him ? — He is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
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