 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
 | 1870 - 764 pages
...Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poom's period, And all combin'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet...there hover in their restless heads, One thought, ono grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest." If another passage in... | |
 | Henry Southgate - Love poetry - 1873 - 448 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...at the best, Which into words no virtue can digest. Marlowe, Oft her laugh with reckless richness rung, And shook a shower of musie-pearls around. Massey.... | |
 | North American review - 1875 - 508 pages
...they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, If these had made one-poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness ; Yet should there hover in...the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." f * Was not this picture painted by Paul Veronese, for example ? " Arachno figured how Jove did abuse... | |
 | George Chapman - 1875 - 524 pages
...pass into the likeness of any perishable life ; but though all were done that all poets could do, " Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest." No poet ever came nearer than Marlowe to the expression... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Literature - 1875 - 204 pages
...pass into the likeness of any perishable life ; but though all were done that all poets could do, " Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest." No poet ever came nearer than Marlowe to the expression... | |
 | George Chapman - 1874 - 532 pages
...of any perishable life ; but though all were done that all poets could do, " Yet should there ^over in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least. Which into words no virtue can digest." No poet ever came nearer than Marlowe to the expression... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1876 - 474 pages
...hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still % Prom their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 348 pages
...they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness ; Yet should there hover in...the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." * Spenser, at his best, has come as near to expressing this unattainable something as any other poet.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - New England - 1876 - 346 pages
...they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness ; Yet should there hover in...the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." * Spenser, at his best, has come as near to expressing this unattainable something as any other poet.... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 585 pages
...face of his mistress, for that the highest reaches of a human wit might be attained by them, and ' Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the beet Which into words no virtue can digest ;' so one finds here. There is a subtlety of genius as of... | |
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