...Poetry," says Wordsworth — and we shall venture to include within the term the arts in general — " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge,...expression which is in the countenance of all science." " Every great poet," he likewise maintains, and therefore we would say, every great poet-artist, "...

...and science. " Poetry," he wrote in the preface to the second edition of the " Lyrical Ballads," " is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ;...expression which is in the countenance of all science. . . . If the labors of men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect,...

...acquisition, slow to come to us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, ' that he looks before and...

...conneeting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefaetor ; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude : the Poet,...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakspeare hath raid of man, 1 that he looks before and...

...ungentle apathy, or of insensibility to the practical claims of life. For poetry, it has been well said, is the ' impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science,' and the apparent absence of connexion between high things and low disappears before the faculty which...

...acquisition, slow to come to us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown...expression which is in the countenance of all science. Emphatically may it be said of the poet, as Shakspere hath said of man, " that he looks before and...

...acquisition, slow to come to us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakspeare hath said of man, " that he looks before and...

...connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown licnefactor ; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude : the Poet, singing a song in which all human In'ings juin wilh him, rejoices in tile presence of (ruth as our visible friend und hourly companion....

...the tendencies or mar the creations of genuine bards. Let us hear Wordsworth on the question : — ' Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science. The objects of the poet's thoughts are everywhere ; he will follow wheresoever tie canßnd an atmosphere...

...little lustre on his indomitable courage. Not inconsiderately, then, was it said by Wordsworth, that " poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...expression which is in the countenance of all science." And once more recurring to the subject of astronomy, with a conviction that poetry * Joanna Baillie....