 If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of...  The Old English Dramatists - Pagina 32door James Russell Lowell - 1892 - 132 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Richard Halkett - 1887 - 588 pagina’s
...all that »re And all the starry songs behind thy car Rang sequence, all our souls acclaim thee sire. 'If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts,' And as with rush of hurtling chariots Tne flight of all their spirits were impelled Toward one grent end,... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1888 - 544 pagina’s
...most ideal form was not inexperienced by the poet : — " What is beauty, saith my sufferings, then ? If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling...mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 1888 - 512 pagina’s
...art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the heauty of a thousand stars." BEAUTY BEYOND EXPRESSION. " If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling...thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, And minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they 'still From their immortal... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1888 - 356 pagina’s
...held Had fed the feeling of their master's thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their heart* Their minds and muses on admired themes, If all the...quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, * Was not this picture painted by Paul Veronese, for example ! " Arachne figured how Jove did abuse... | |
 | 1891 - 432 pagina’s
...for the comparison. Let us take the blank verse where Tamburlane asks himself, " What is beauty? " From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as...mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined iu beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1889 - 514 pagina’s
...bombastic, but he constantly pushes grandiosity to the verge of bombast. His contemporaries thought he passed it in his " Tamburlaine." His imagination flames...mirror, we 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... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 408 pagina’s
...with conceit of foil So much by much as doth Zenocrate. What is beauty, saith my sufferings, then ? If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling...mirror, we 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... | |
 | 1889 - 552 pagina’s
...TENNYSON 123.— UNEXPRESSED IF all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their master's thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their...mirror we 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... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1890 - 358 pagina’s
...incoherence of a well-known passage of his Tamburlaine. " What is beauty, then ? " the hero asks : If all the pens that ever poets held, Had fed the...mirror, we 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 446 pagina’s
...from picture to picture. " If all the pens that ever poet held Had fed the feeling of their master's thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their...quintessence 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... | |
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