 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...of his dignity." Who is not at once delighted and improved, when the Wordsworth himself exclaims, " Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ;...with highest gifts The vision and the faculty divine, Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse, Nor having e'er, as life advanced, been led By circumstance... | |
 | Mary Bayard Clarke - 1854 - 250 pages
...produced any great poets, still these " foot-prints of the Muse " will show that we possess some of "the poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with...highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine." As the note of the mocking-bird in our native woods is sweeter to the ear of patriotism than the song... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 pages
...days I learned To weigh with care his words, and to rejoice In the plain presence of his dignity ! Oh! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men...with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse, (Which, in the docile season of their youth, It was denied... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 pages
...the poet by their courteous and benevolent host, ' Oh t many are the poets that are sown " • '. ~ii By nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine, Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.' The Excursion. •-.,. This is the declaration of a high... | |
 | 1862 - 48 pages
...has finely expressed the thought, that the true poet is not necessarily a versifier. He says, — " Oh, many are the Poets that are sown By nature ; men...highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine: Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse." But, although there are more poets than the world dreams... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...dignity." Who is not at once delighted and improved, when, the PG-. Wordsworth himself exclaims, " Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ;...with highest gifts The vision and the faculty divine, Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse, Nor having e'er, as life advanced, been led By circumstance... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1864 - 210 pages
...well as horn." Wordsworth, too, has expressed himself most unequivocally on this subject : — " 0 many are the poets that are sown By nature, men endowed...with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; Tet wanting the accomplishment of verse, Which, in the docile season of their youth, It was denied... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 pages
...dignity." Who is not at once delighted and improved, when the PC . Wordsworth himself exclaims, " Oh I many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed...with highest gifts The vision and the faculty divine, Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse, Nor having e'er, aa life advanced, been led By cireumstance... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 pages
...days I learned To weigh with care his words, and to rejoice In the plain presence of his dignity ! Oh ! many are the poets that are sown By Nature ;...highest gifts — The vision and the faculty divine — Yet wanting tho accomplishment of verse, ( Which, in the docile season of their youth, It was denied... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...is poesy but to create From overfeeling good or ill ; and aim At an external life beyond our fate. * Oh ! many are the poets that are sown By nature ;...with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. * « • * These favour' d beings All but a scatter' d few... | |
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Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; .Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse... 
