 | Literature - 1907 - 854 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. The merit and the crime of Meredith Is that he has made an effort to find expression for every restless... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - English language - 1897 - 184 pages
...does not imply food, and there may hover in the restless heads of poets, as themselves testify — One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest. Matter and form are not so separable as the popular philosophy would have them ; indeed, the very antithesis... | |
 | Lilian F. Field - Renaissance - 1898 - 328 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...at the least Which into words no virtue can digest. The others—Greene, Peele, Lodge, Nash, and Kyd— were all wild scapegraces like their leader. Their... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 268 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. In Tambwlaine "Marlowe's mighty line" first comes into Elizabethan drama: its successor, The Tragical... | |
 | Eugene M. Waith - Drama - 1988 - 324 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. (5.2.97-110) Here is the aspiring poet who longs like his hero to conquer more and more territory,... | |
 | Albert Charles Hamilton - Reference - 1997 - 884 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 their...the least, Which into words no virtue can digest. We know what Shakespeare felt, for, in his maet>ie fashion and with his actor's memnrv. he annexed... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Drama - 1992 - 322 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. This passage from Tamburlaine the Great displays the lush, declamatory, hyperbolic language of Senecan... | |
 | Millar MacLure - English drama - 1995 - 219 pages
...nor pass into the likeness of any perishable life; but though all were done that all poets could do, Yet should there hover in their restless heads, One...the least, Which into words no virtue can digest. No poet ever came nearer than Marlowe to the expression of this inexpressible beauty, to the incarnation... | |
 | Sangharakshita (Bhikshu), Sangharakshita - Religion - 1993 - 248 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;...wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.5* It is because language — and therefore literature — is unable to communicate experience... | |
 | Tony Davies - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 170 pages
...hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still [distill] From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as...the least, Which into words no virtue can digest. (Marlowe 1969: 167-8) Unlike his author, Tamburlaine is not much of a reader, so we need not suspect... | |
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Their minds, and muses on admired themes; 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 combin'd... 
