 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
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 366 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.1 Infinite as is the distance between the long roll of... | |
 | Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - English literature - 1881 - 432 pages
...admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still * First Part of Tamburlaine, act v. s0. 2. From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as...heads, One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest." * * » It was almost inevitable, as we can now see after... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1883 - 350 pages
...their hearts, ' And minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they 'stil From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as...restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the test, Which into words no virtue can digest. THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE. Come Use with me... | |
 | Education - 1884 - 688 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...the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." sculptures, she shuts our lips; "My children, be still," that august schoolmistress sternly says to... | |
 | Education - 1884 - 664 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...the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." Nature herself gives us a broad hint to the same purpose. Just when she discloses to our admiration... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1884 - 696 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 impossible beauty, on which Tamburlaine here meditates,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 706 pages
...of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Vet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest. The impossible beauty, on which Tamburlaine here meditates,... | |
 | 1885 - 626 pages
...fed* the feeling of their master's 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.' Our readers will probably agree with us that this is... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1885 - 602 pages
...quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive r: • • The highest reaches of a human wit. If these had made...restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least Which into words no virtue can digest.' Our readers will probably agree with us that this is... | |
 | Frank Carr - 1885 - 534 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...the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." Figurative language (Correspondential) is not, however, in itself Truth, nor does it endeavour to make... | |
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