 | 1875 - 514 pages
...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." f * Was not this picture painted by Paul Veronese, for... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1876 - 474 pages
...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 thought, one...it for my sex, My discipline of arms and chivalry, Hy nature, and the terror of my name, To harbour thoughts effeminate and faint 1 Save only that in... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - New England - 1876 - 346 pages
...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." * Spenser, at his best, has come as near to expressing... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 348 pages
...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." * Spenser, at his best, has come as near to expressing... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 585 pages
...his mistress, for that the highest reaches of a human wit might be attained by them, and ' Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the beet Which into words no virtue can digest ;' so one finds here. There is a subtlety of genius as of... | |
 | Julius Leopold Klein - Drama - 1876 - 870 pages
...Und sterben mag kein Hund, geschweige ein auf den Hund an der Kette gekommener Padiseliau. 2) Tamb. But how unseemly is it for my sex, My discipline of arms and chivalery, My nature, and the terror of my naine, Leben des Sultans, aus Rücksicht auf Zeuocrate,... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 358 pages
...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 thought, one...the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.' Infinite as is the distance between the long roll of these mighty lines and the thin tinkle, of their... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 366 pages
...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 thought, one...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... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1884 - 696 pages
...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 thought, one...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... | |
 | Education - 1884 - 688 pages
...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 thought, one grace, one wonder, at the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." sculptures, she shuts our lips; "My children, be still,"... | |
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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... 
