 | Edward Dowden - 1888 - 544 Seiten
...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 in their restless heads, One...the least, Which into words no virtue can digest." If another passage in " Tamburlaine " : — " Still climbing after knowledge infinite," announced the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1888 - 356 Seiten
...should read "lost"! If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness ; Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." * Spenser, at his best, has come as near to expressing... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 408 Seiten
...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 their restless heads One...my name, To harbour thoughts effeminate and faint ! Save only that in beauty's just applause, With whose instinct the soul of man is touched ; And every... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1889 - 514 Seiten
...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 their restless heads One...the least, Which into words no virtue can digest." Marlowe made snatches at this forbidden fruit with vigorous leaps, and not without bringing away a... | |
 | 1889 - 552 Seiten
...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 their restless heads One...at the least Which into words no virtue can digest. C. MARLOWE 124.— MEDITATION OF LORD STRAFFORD IN THE TOWER Go, empty joys, With all your noise, And... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1890 - 434 Seiten
...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 their restless heads One...the least, "Which into words no virtue can digest. There is no denying the reality for us of this ideal. That elusive loveliness which " hovers in the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 436 Seiten
...immortal flowers of poesy, If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness ; Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." 1 Spenser at his best, has come as near to expressing... | |
 | J. G. Lewis - 1891 - 44 Seiten
...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 their restless heads One...my name, To harbour thoughts effeminate and faint ! Save only that in beauty's just applause, With whose instinct the soul of man is touched ; And every... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 340 Seiten
...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 their restless heads, One...the least, Which into words no virtue can digest." And this unspoken word is the final secret of beauty. Fifty years later, in that England of Cavaliers... | |
 | James Challis Parsons - 1891 - 184 Seiten
...muses on admired themes, If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One...the least, Which into words no virtue can digest. — First Part of Tamburlaine, V. 2. SHAKESPEARE. 22. The great body of Shakespeare's plays is written... | |
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If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a 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... 
