 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 Fortnightly - Seite 821870Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Russell Lowell - 1895 - 156 Seiten
...delivered, thirty-four years ago, as a poet's feeling of the inadequacy of the word to the idea : — " If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, MARLOWE 37 And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes... | |
 | 1895 - 416 Seiten
...that inhabit a kingdom. The soul is a world of itself, and has enough to do in its own home. KEATS. IF all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their master's thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses, on admired... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 492 Seiten
...Shelley. Yet Byron rather feels with Marlowe the unattainability of ideal beauty. As Marlowe cries : " If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, ****** If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness,1 Yet should there... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1900 - 512 Seiten
...? As never lover lived before." 2 A great Elizabethan, trying to define beauty, begins thus : — " If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts." ' The faults of Elizabethan literature sprang from this very exuberance of imagination and youthful... | |
 | Charles F. Johnson - 1900 - 566 Seiten
...a poet to express with subtle and final truth the supreme aim and the supreme limit of his art." " If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their master's thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1902 - 532 Seiten
...treachery, and horrors of all sorts which these plays contain. Now for a very different citation : — " If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every swee1ness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses, on admired themes; If all the heavenly... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1904 - 580 Seiten
...beauty has, no less than power, her own impossible, for which he thirsted : What is beauty, sayeth my sufferings, then ? If all the pens that ever poets...thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Then- minds and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1904 - 386 Seiten
...years, as well as in spirit, had uttered concerning poets, in "Tamburlaine," a good while before : If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1904 - 702 Seiten
...that are, 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 The flight of all their spirits were impelled Towards one great end,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1904 - 710 Seiten
...that are, 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 The flight of all their spirits were impelled Towards one great end,... | |
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