Date: w. 1821, 1840
"But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty, whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of the poetical faculty, proportionally circumscribed those of the internal world; and man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself a slave."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"But even whilst they deny and abjure, they are yet compelled to serve, that power which is seated on the throne of their own soul."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1842
Rash, angry words may be "spoken out of season / When passion has usurp'd the throne of reason"
preview | full record— Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846)
Date: 1848
"It is often obscure, often half-told; for he who wrote it, in his clear seeing of the things beneath, may have been impatient of detailed interpretations; for if we choose to dwell upon it and trace it, it will lead us always securely back to that metropolis of the soul’s dominion from which we ...
preview | full record— Ruskin, John (1819-1900)
Date: 1850
"But Nature then was sovereign in my mind, / And mighty forms, seizing a youthful fancy, / Had given a charter to irregular hopes."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"Nor was it mean delight / To watch crude Nature work in untaught minds; / To note the laws and progress of belief."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"So I fared, / Dragging all precepts, judgments, maxims, creeds, / Like culprits to the bar; calling the mind, / Suspiciously, to establish in plain day / Her titles and her honours"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"The mind is lord and master--outward sense / The obedient servant of her will"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"Moreover, each man's Mind is to herself / Witness and judge"
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