Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive... The North American Review - Page 39edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
| Barrett Wendell - 1894 - 460 pages
...Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly...restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest." Still more clearly, however, the lasting power of Marlowe... | |
| Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in...restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least Which into words no virtue can digest. MARLOWE. 80 Call me what instrument you will, though you... | |
| John Forster - 1895 - 600 pages
...human wit might be attained by them, and ' Yet chonld there hover in their restless heails One thonght, one grace, one wonder at the best Which into words no virtue can digest ;' so one finds here. There is a subtlety of genius as of beauty that escapes when we would fix the... | |
| Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1896 - 232 pages
...their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still 1 From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as...restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.2 And it would be difficult to surpass the tenderness... | |
| William Mathews - English language - 1896 - 522 pages
...needs, — as still, after they have exhausted their vocabulary of other words, 'There hover in these restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder,...the best, Which into words no virtue can digest,' they find great need of the interjection. In their hands it deepens all assertions, gives utterance... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 656 pages
...perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness. Yet should there hover in...restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest. But how unseemly is it for my sex, My discipline of arms... | |
| Literature - 1907 - 854 pages
...perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in...restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least. Which into words no virtue can digest. The merit and the crime of Meredith Is that he has made... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 464 pages
...perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in...restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest. But how unseemly is it for my sex. My discipline of arms... | |
| Lilian F. Field - Renaissance - 1898 - 328 pages
...perceive The highest reaches of a human wit, If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in...restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least Which into words no virtue can digest. The others—Greene, Peele, Lodge, Nash, and Kyd— were... | |
| 1899 - 452 pages
...haunted the Renaissance poet, who felt that even when all is won by the masters of expression — " Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least Which into words no virtue can digest." La Bruyere shows signs of effort in his own language,... | |
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