| Education - 1884 - 688 pages
...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 hover in...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,"... | |
| Education - 1884 - 664 pages
...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 hover in...heads, One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." Nature herself gives us a broad hint to the same purpose.... | |
| 1885 - 626 pages
...• If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed* the feeling of their master's thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds...the least Which into words no virtue can digest.' Our readers will probably agree with us that this is a fine passage, but that, fine though it is, it... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1885 - 602 pages
...quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive r: • • The highest reaches of a human wit. If these had made...the least Which into words no virtue can digest.' Our readers will probably agree with us that this is a fine passage, but that, fine though it is, it... | |
| Christopher Marlowe, Percy Pinkerton - English drama - 1885 - 354 pages
...perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these hiii! made one poem's period, And all combiu'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in...virtue can digest. But how unseemly is it for my sex, Hy discipline of arms and chivalry, Hy nature, and the terror of my name, To harbour thoughts effeminate... | |
| Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 250 pages
...perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combiu'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in...words no virtue can digest. But how unseemly is it lor my sex, My discipline of arms and chivalry, My nature, and the terror of my name. To harbour thoughts... | |
| Frank Carr - 1885 - 534 pages
...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 hover in...restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." Figurative language (Correspondential) is not, however,... | |
| Arthur Wilson Verity - 1886 - 116 pages
...poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless head One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least Which into words no virtue can digest. Mr Swinburne 1 in one of his essays takes four lines from Wordsworth's poem ' The Solitary Reaper.'... | |
| George Saintsbury - England - 1887 - 530 pages
...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 hover in...the least Which into words no virtue can digest." It is no wonder that the whole school has been dwarfed in the general estimation, since its work was... | |
| Edward Dowden - Criticism - 1888 - 546 pages
...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...the least, Which into words no virtue can digest." If another passage in " Tamburlaine " : — " Still climbing after knowledge infinite," announced the... | |
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