 | English poetry - 1899 - 204 pages
...beautic ? Is all good structure in a winding-stair ? May no lines passe, except they do their dutie Not to a true, but painted chair ? Is it not verse,...except enchanted groves And sudden arbours shadow coarse-spunne lines? Must purling streams refresh a lover's loves ? Must all be vail'd while he that... | |
 | Fitz Roy Carrington - Agincourt, Battle of, Agincourt, France, 1415 - 1899 - 174 pages
...beautie ? Is all good structure in a winding-stair ? May no lines passe, except they do their dutie Not to a true, but painted chair ? Is it not verse,...except enchanted groves And sudden arbours shadow coarse-spunne lines ? Must purling streams refresh a lover's loves ? Must all be vail'd while he that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1900 - 612 pages
...the concettisti, and (it may be) at Donne himself, in the lines strangely entitled 'Jordan' : — ' Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse ? Is there in truth no beauty ? IB all good structure in a winding stair ? • » • * » Must all be veiled, while ho that reads,... | |
 | George Herbert - Christian poetry, English - 1906 - 288 pages
...beautie ? Is all good structure in a winding-stair? May no lines passe, except they do their dutie Not to a true, but painted chair ? Is it not verse,...except enchanted groves And sudden arbours shadow coarse-spunne lines ? Must purling streams refresh a lover's loves ? Must all be vail'd, while he that... | |
 | 1906 - 466 pages
...church. Like Donne, Herbert rejects the pastoral and allegorical conventions of the Spenserians. " Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse ? Is there no truth in beauty ? Is all good structure in a winding stair ? May no lines pass except they do their... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - Europe - 1906 - 422 pages
...church. Like Donne, Herbert rejects the pastoral and allegorical conventions of the Spenserians. " Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse ? Is there no truth in beauty ? Is all good structure in a winding stair ? May no lines pass except they do their... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish literature - 1907 - 502 pages
...you remember condemning something of mine for being too obtrusively didactic? Listen to Herbert — " Is it not verse except enchanted groves And sudden...purling streams refresh a lover's loves ? Must all be -veiled, while he that reads divines Catching the sense at two removes f " 1 Aikman's " Annals of the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Authors, Scottish - 1911 - 400 pages
...you remember condemning something of mine for being too obtrusively didactic. Listen to Herbert— ' Is it not verse except enchanted groves And sudden...purling streams refresh a lover's loves ? Must all be veiled, while he that reads divines Catching the sense at two removes ? ' You see, 'except' was used... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912 - 416 pages
...you remember condemning something of mine for being too obtrusively didactic. Listen to Herbert — " Is it not verse except enchanted groves And sudden...lines ? Must purling streams refresh a lover's loves ? Mnst all be velled, while he that reads divines Catching the sense at two removes ? " You see, "... | |
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WHO says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse ? Is there in truth no beauty ? Is all good structure in a winding stair... 
