 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 464 Seiten
...Whose sorrows lay more siege unto my soul, Than all my army to Damascus's walls: And neither Persia's sovereign, nor the Turk, Troubled my senses with conceit...their masters' thoughts. And every sweetness that inspired their hearts. Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 656 Seiten
...Whose sorrows lay more siege unto my soul, Than all my army to Damascus's walls: And neither Persia's sovereign, nor the Turk, Troubled my senses with conceit...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they... | |
 | 1907 - 854 Seiten
...us in one of the memorable passages of English poetry how surely thought must outstrip expression: 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... | |
 | Lilian F. Field - 1898 - 328 Seiten
...at its very best; a height of serenity and tenderness to which his stormy muse did not often attain: 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... | |
 | 1917 - 714 Seiten
...artist has succeeded in embodying in his poem, his painting, or his symphony. In Marlowe's great 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 they... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1900 - 512 Seiten
...? As never lover lived before." 2 A great Elizabethan, trying to define beauty, begins thus : — " If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts." ' The faults of Elizabethan literature sprang from this very exuberance of imagination and youthful... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 492 Seiten
...Shelley. Yet Byron rather feels with Marlowe the unattainability of ideal beauty. As Marlowe cries : " If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, ****** If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness,1 Yet should there... | |
 | Charles F. Johnson - 1900 - 566 Seiten
...a poet to express with subtle and final truth the supreme aim and the supreme limit of his art." " 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... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1900 - 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 held Had fed tho feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1902 - 532 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 swee1ness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses, on admired themes; If all the heavenly... | |
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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... 
