 | Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 250 Seiten
...perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combiu'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in...words no virtue can digest. But how unseemly is it lor my sex, My discipline of arms and chivalry, My nature, and the terror of my name. To harbour thoughts... | |
 | Frank Carr - 1885 - 534 Seiten
...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 best, Which into words no virtue can digest." Figurative language (Correspondential) is not, however,... | |
 | Arthur Wilson Verity - 1886 - 116 Seiten
...poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless head One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least Which into words no virtue can digest. Mr Swinburne 1 in one of his essays takes four lines from Wordsworth's poem ' The Solitary Reaper.'... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1887 - 530 Seiten
...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 least Which into words no virtue can digest." It is no wonder that the whole school has been dwarfed in the general estimation, since its work was... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1888 - 546 Seiten
...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 combin'd...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
...world's delight.' Perhaps we should read "lost"! 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 best, Which into words no virtue can digest." * Spenser, at his best, has come as near to expressing... | |
 | 1889 - 552 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1889 - 514 Seiten
...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 least, Which into words no virtue can digest." Marlowe made snatches at this forbidden fruit with vigorous leaps, and not without bringing away a... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1890 - 434 Seiten
...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 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 - 434 Seiten
...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 in...restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." l Spenser at his best, has come as near to expressing... | |
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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 highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd... 
