 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 Quarterly Review - Seite 3331885Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1880 - 366 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...wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.1 Infinite as is the distance between the long roll of these mighty lines and the thin tinkle... | |
 | Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - 1881 - 432 Seiten
...admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still * First Part of Tamburlaine, act v. s0. 2. From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as...the least, Which into words no virtue can digest." * * » It was almost inevitable, as we can now see after ihe event, that the line of five stresses,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1883 - 350 Seiten
...their hearts, ' And minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they 'stil From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as...restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the test, Which into words no virtue can digest. THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE. Come Use with me... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 696 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. The impossible beauty, on which Tamburlaine here meditates, is beauty eluding the poet and the artist... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 706 Seiten
...of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Vet should there hover in their restless heads One thought,...the least, Which into words no virtue can digest. The impossible beauty, on which Tamburlaine here meditates, is beauty eluding the poet and the artist... | |
 | 1884 - 688 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...heads, One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." sculptures, she shuts our lips; "My children, be still,"... | |
 | 1884 - 664 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...heads, One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." Nature herself gives us a broad hint to the same purpose.... | |
 | 1885 - 626 Seiten
...'and if,' he adds, 'Marlowe's country should ever bear men worthy to raise a statue or a monument in his memory, he should stand before them with the head...to hundreds of others in the Elizabethan Dramas. In Mr. Swinburne's judgment — we give his very words — it is ' perhaps the noblest passage in the... | |
 | 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...the least, Which into 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... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe, Percy Pinkerton - 1885 - 354 Seiten
...perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these hiii! made one poem's period, And all combiu'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in...the least, Which into words no virtue can digest. But how unseemly is it for my sex, Hy discipline of arms and chivalry, Hy nature, and the terror of... | |
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