 | 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...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Then- minds and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 Seiten
...passionate outcry over the beauty of his chosen queen, whose magic he can neither express nor comprehend : If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they... | |
 | John H. Ingram - 1904 - 332 Seiten
...to find a passage so nearly expressing the poet's aspirations to unburden his longings in words : ' If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1904 - 382 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 inspirM their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 504 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...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1904 - 686 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1913 - 268 Seiten
...of Dr. Finley than the words of the late dramatist Marlowe in Tamburlane the Great, where he says : If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, i And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all... | |
 | William Henry Williams - 1905 - 600 Seiten
...Damascus' walls ; And neither Persia's sovereign nor the Turk Troubled my senses with conceit of foil 25 So much by much as doth Zenocrate. What is beauty,...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, 30 Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence... | |
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If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of... 
