 Mindless of its just honours ; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief ; The sonnet glittered a gay...  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Pagina 119door William Wordsworth - 1828 - 340 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Alfred Jones - 1847 - 352 pagina’s
...with it an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It...his hand The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul -animating strains — alas, too few ! Since the time of Milton, sonnet-writing has been little... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pagina’s
...cypress with which Daute bound His visionary brow : a glowworm lamp, It cheer1 d mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and...he blew Soul-animating strains — alas ! too few." The sonnets of Wordsworth are in no sense inferior to the finest examples, we will not say of Shakspeare,... | |
 | sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 328 pagina’s
...Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Fairy-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! ' When have poetry and criticism mingled more genially than in these fourteen lines of rapid retrospect,... | |
 | 1851 - 658 pagina’s
...cypress with which Dante crown'd His visionary brow; a glow-worm lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and,...whence he blew Soul-animating strains— alas ! too few ! " No douht this is a very noble string of names. But you need not go beyond your own language to... | |
 | 1851 - 902 pagina’s
...graver experiences and reflections of the model mind j 'A glow-worm lamp, In cheered mild Spencer — called from faery-land To struggle through dark ways...when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hands The thing became a trumpet whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few !' In the... | |
 | Bombay (India : State). Board of Education - 1851 - 768 pagina’s
...DANTE crown'd His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheer1 d mild SPENSER, call'd from faery land, To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell round the path of MILTON, in his hand The thing hecame a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few !" 9. Paraphrase the following... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1852 - 488 pagina’s
...Dante crowned His visionary brow : a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Fairy-land To struggle through dark ways ; and, when a damp Fell...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few !" But the Sonnet is not confined to the Old World : — certain also of our own poets have with this... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pagina’s
...soothed an exile's grief; j The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow : a glow-worm lamp, It...and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in Ins hand The Thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few. 230... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pagina’s
...: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Fairy land To struggle through dark rays; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in...he blew Soul-animating strains — alas! too few." Indeed, Wordsworth has for ever set the question of the literary dignity of the English sonnet at rest.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pagina’s
...cypress with which Dante crown'd His visionary brow : a glow-worm lamp, It chccr'd mild Spenser, call'd from faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and,...he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few! MILTON. Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour; England hath need of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant... | |
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