For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his... The Cornhill Magazine - Stran 28uredili: - 1876Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 348 strani
...Plato wrote: ' The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind no longer in him : when he has not attained to this state he is powerless," Ion. In Homer, J' the minstrel... | |
| James Thomson - 1896 - 502 strani
.... . . For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired, and is out of his senses, and the...is powerless, and is unable to utter his oracles. . . . Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak, not of one theme only, but... | |
| James Thomson - 1896 - 692 strani
.... . . For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired, and is out of his senses, and the...is powerless, and is unable to utter his oracles. . . . Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak, not of one theme only, but... | |
| Plato - 1899 - 706 strani
...and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he haa been inspired and is out of his fenses, and the mind is no longer in him : when he has not...he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles. Many are the noble words in which poets speak ot actions like your own words about Homer ; but they... | |
| Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1899 - 362 strani
...true. For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired, and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer 104 in him. . . . For in this way the God would seem to indicate to us, and not allow us to doubt that... | |
| Richard Salter Storrs - 1901 - 600 strani
...true. For the poet ia a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the...has not attained to this state, he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles. . . . For in this way the God would seem to indicate to us, and not allow... | |
| Paul Elmer More - 1905 - 288 strani
...said that "the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer in him. ' ' In the hour of inspiration some darkened window is opened on the horizon to eyes that are ordinarily... | |
| Paul Elmer More - 1905 - 288 strani
...said that "the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer in him. ' ' In the hour of inspiration some darkened window is opened on the horizon to eyes that are ordinarily... | |
| Ernest Trafford Campagnac - 1916 - 132 strani
...flower. The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he is inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is...has not attained to this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles." A further passage from the same dialogue emphasizes the same teaching,... | |
| William Henry Schofield - 1920 - 408 strani
...a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him...he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles. . . . God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and... | |
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