...poetry, in the sense of one of the happiest definitions which we have seen ; " Poetry," says Shelley, "is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." Pleasure, without mixture of misgiving or alarm ; beauty ; love ; clear conscience ; and fresh, perennial...

...estimate of his virtues and his genius than has hitherto been done. We find, in the verse of a poet, " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds*." But this is not enough—we desire to know the man. We desire to learn how much of the sensibility...

...estimate of his virtues and his genius than has hitherto been done. We find, in the verse of a poet, "the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds."* But this is not enough — we desire to know the man. We desire to learn how much of the sensibility...

...estimate of his virtues and his genius than has hitherto been done. « We find, in the verse of a poet, " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds."* But this is not enough — we desire to know the man. We desire to learn how much of the sensibility...

...come. It is built on, and of, and in, and for happiness. " It is the record," as Shelley has it, " of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." True, it often deals with sorrow, but none of our sorrows are without a ray of comfort ; and as black...

...come. It is built on, and of, and in, and for happiness. " It is the record," as Shelley has it, " of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds." True, it often deals with sorrow, but none of our sorrows are without a ray of comfort ; and as black...

...is, as in the strictest sense factitious and artificial. Shelley, indeed, very sweetly calls poetry " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds;" but then this only refers us farther back in time for the poetry, which .certainly does not consist...

...as, in the strictest sense, factitious and artificial. Shelley, indeed, very sweetly calls poetry " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds ; " but then this only refers us farther back in time for the poetry, which certainly does not consist...

...as, in the strictest sense, factitious and artificial. Shelley, indeed, very sweetly calls poetry " the record of the best and happiest moments of the best and happiest minds ; " but then this only refers us farther back in time for the poetry, which certainly does not consist...

...passion are touched by a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form." Shelley's description of poetry, as " the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best men," strikes the same key, and fits prose, especially of the imaginative sort which...