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" Aristotle, I have been told, has said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing: it is so: its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative; not standing upon external testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion... "
Scripture Proverbs: Illustrated, Annotated, and Applied - Page 351
by Francis Jacox - 1876 - 604 pages
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Lyrical Ballads: With Pastoral and Other Poems

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...been told, hath said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and...passion ; truth which is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal....
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Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, in Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth, not individual and Jocal, but general, and operative ; not standing upon external...passion ; truth which is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal....
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...been told, hath said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and...passion ; truth which is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal....
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two ..., Issue 356, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...been told, hath said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and...passion; truth which is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal....
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Poems, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...have been told, hath said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing: it is so: its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and...passion ; truth which is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal....
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Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ...

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...been told, hath said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and...but carried alive into the heart by passion ; truth \vhich is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals,...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 4

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...been told, hath said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and...passion ; truth which is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal....
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...hare been (old, hath said, (hat Poe(ry is the most philosophic of all writing: it is so: its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative ; not standing upon eiternal testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion; truth which is its own testimony,...
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Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register, Volumes 1-3

1830 - 452 pages
...passion, truth which is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity to thetribnnal to wh.ch it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal. Poetry is the imttge of man and nature. The obstacles which stand in the way of tbe fidelity of the Biographer and...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1836 - 368 pages
...been told, has said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and...same tribunal. Poetry is the image of man and nature. The obstacles which stand in the way of the fidelity of the Biographer and Historian, and of their...
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