 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
 | Henry Reed - 1867 - 426 pages
...myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress w ith which Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheerM mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through...in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he hlew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few !" It is the poets who have best revealed the hidden... | |
 | 1867 - 972 pages
...the cypress with which DANTE crowned Hi§ visionary brow ; u glowworm lamp, It cheered mild SPENSEB, called from faery-land To struggle through dark ways...MILTON, in his hand The thing became a trumpet, whence Ire blew Soul-animating strains — alas ! too few." After the time of Milton the popularity of the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glowworm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from fairy-land To struggle through dark ways; and, when a damp Fell...his hand The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew XIV.— THE FORCE OF BREVITY. See in Index, INFANTILE, ^SCHINES, CATILIXE, CICERO, DEMOSTHEXES. 1.... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1867 - 360 pages
...am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! WORDSWORTH. * On the Period of Childhood * when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains—alas too few! WORDSWORTH. * Miscel. Sonnets * Within the soul a faculty abides, That with... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 pages
...Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glowworm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from fairy-land To struggle through dark ways; and, when a damp Fell...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few! XIV.— THE FORCE OF BREVITY. See in Index, INFANTILE, JJscHiNES, CATILINE, CICERO, DEMOSTHENES. 1.... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1868 - 274 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.' . . . "Next indeed in enjoyment to the gratification which I experience, for my own sake as well as... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glowworm lamp It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery -land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! WORDSWORTH. The student has now before him sixty distinct forms of verse. The examples might be considerably... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...soothed on 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...Thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul-animating strains—alas, too few 1 How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks The wayward brain, to saunter through... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 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...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! " THE SONNET. — Ibid. " Beauty, Good, and Knowledge are three sisters That doat upon each other,... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 88 pages
...gave ease to Petrarch's wounds,' 'the glowworm lamp that cheered mild Spenser,' and continues, that When a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...he blew Soul-animating strains — alas ! too few. Wordsworth's own beautiful specimen contains all that can be said on the subject : — The Sonnet.... | |
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