 | Anthropology - 1891 - 432 pages
...one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restiess heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest." That charming writer, Adelaide Procter, has in our own day expressed a similar thought : No great Thinker... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - English drama - 1892 - 156 pages
...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." Marlowe made snatches at this forbidden fruit with vigorous leaps, and not without bringing away a... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1892 - 380 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." Marlowe made snatches at this forbidden fruit with vigorous leaps, and not without bringing away a... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - English literature - 1892 - 368 pages
...wit ; — If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Tet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1892 - 156 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." Marlowe made snatches at this forbidden fruit with vigorous leaps, and not without bringing away a... | |
 | American fiction - 1925 - 564 pages
...gleam,— The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream ; or Marlowe's — One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest. If del Sarto had possessed this supreme gift his art would have gained, not suffered, from the fact... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1892 - 426 pages
...before the poet's vision, whatever the beauty he may have succeeded in fixing upon the page, of the " One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digeet." By the critic, no less than the poet, this difficulty is felt when he seeks to digest into... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 284 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. MATHEW ARNOLD. Thoughout, observe the peculiar marks of Arnold's literary manner: his aim and methods.... | |
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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... 
