 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 - Page 119by William Wordsworth - 1828 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Simpson Patterson - 1862 - 236 pages
...His visionary brow : a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To straggle through dark ways ; and, when a damp Fell round the...whence he blew Soul-animating strains— alas, too few I " Even in Wordsworth's own hands the Sonnet occasionally, but not often, gives a tnunpetsound. Here... | |
 | Robert Henry Martley, Richard Denny Urlin - 1863 - 304 pages
...Sicilians. " Scorn not the fonnet," (fays Wordfworth,) — " with this key Shakefpeare unlocked his heart : and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in...Thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating ftrains — alas, too lew ! " It feems lingular that Wordfworth, who began by making war upon form,... | |
 | 1863 - 276 pages
...Sicilians. " Scorn not the fonnet," (fays Wordfworth,) — " with this key Shakefpeare unlocked his heart : and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in...Thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating ftrains — alas, too few ! " It feems fingular that Wordfworth, who began by making war upon form,... | |
 | 1865 - 448 pages
...soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glowworm lamp, It cheered...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas ! too few. II. How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks The wayward brain, to saunter through a wood ! An old... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1866 - 502 pages
...myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few !" It is the pouts who have best revealed the hidden harmony that lies in our short Saxon-English words... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 pages
...visionary brow: a glowworm .lamp, Camoens sooth'd with it an exile's grief: It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and...his hand The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-anirnating strains — alas! too few," The sonnets of Wordsworth are in no sense inferior to the... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1866 - 554 pages
...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...thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains—alas, too few!" But the Sonnet is not confined to the Old World:—certain also of our own... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...it an exile's grief: The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante bound His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild...thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains—alas ! too few. II. ON HIS OWN RLINDNESS. When I consider how my light is spent Ere half... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - 1867 - 372 pages
...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...blew Soul-animating strains, — alas ! too few." The regret expressed by Wordsworth, in the conclusion of his sonnet, will, I hope, serve as a warning... | |
 | Bombay (India : State). Board of Education - 1851 - 764 pages
...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 when a damp Fell...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few !" 9. Paraphrase the following passage, and explain the 4 theory of a future life therein set down... | |
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