 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
 | 1885 - 626 Seiten
...illustrate his criticisms. In the first part of Marlowe's ' Tamburlaine ' occur these lines : — • If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed* the feeling of their master's thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds and muses on admired... | |
 | Arthur Wilson Verity - 1886 - 116 Seiten
...tell the tragedy of Marlowe's King. And so in his first play the poet could give us lines like these, If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, 1 This ' boundless running,' as Daniel terms it, has well been called the 'overflow': Shakespeare to... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1887 - 500 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...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses, on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1887 - 530 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 s\vectness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses, on admired themes ; If all the heavenly... | |
 | Richard Halkett - 1887 - 588 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 1888 - 512 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1889 - 552 Seiten
...whispers to the worlds of space, In the deep night, that all is well. 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 hearts, Their minds, and muses, on admired... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 334 Seiten
...significant than the surging sea of bombast for which it stands in tradition, are these lines on beauty,— " If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling...thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearty Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From the... | |
 | James Challis Parsons - 1891 - 184 Seiten
...those that do behold them may become As men that stand and gaze against the sun. — Massacre at Paris. 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... | |
 | 1891 - 432 Seiten
...for the comparison. Let us take the blank verse where Tamburlane asks himself, " What is beauty? " " 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... | |
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