 If all the pens 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; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy,...  Life and Memoirs of John Churton Collins - Pagina 275de Laurence Churton Collins - 1912 - 330 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | George Saintsbury - 1887 - 530 pagini
...treachery, and horrors of all sorts which these plays contain. Now for a very different citation : — " If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every s\vectness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses, on admired themes ; If all the heavenly... | |
 | Richard Halkett - 1887 - 588 pagini
...all that »re And all the starry songs behind thy car Rang sequence, all our souls acclaim thee sire. 'If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts,' And as with rush of hurtling chariots Tne flight of all their spirits were impelled Toward one grent end,... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 1888 - 512 pagini
...art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the heauty of a thousand stars." BEAUTY BEYOND EXPRESSION. " If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, And minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1888 - 548 pagini
...most ideal form was not inexperienced by the poet : — " What is beauty, saith my sufferings, then ? If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1889 - 514 pagini
...delivered, thirty-four years ago, as a poet's feeling of the inadequacy of the word to the idea : — "If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 408 pagini
...with conceit of foil So much by much as doth Zenocrate. What is beauty, saith my sufferings, then ? If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence... | |
 | 1889 - 552 pagini
...whispers to the worlds of space, In the deep night, that all is well. TENNYSON 123.— UNEXPRESSED IF all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their master's thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses, on admired... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1890 - 358 pagini
...incoherence of a well-known passage of his Tamburlaine. " What is beauty, then ? " the hero asks : If all the pens that ever poets held, Had fed the...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes — If all the heavenly quintessence... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 338 pagini
...than the surging sea of bombast for which it stands in tradition, are these lines on beauty, — " If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they... | |
 | J. G. Lewis - 1891 - 44 pagini
...with conceit of foil So much by much as doth Zenocrate. What is beauty, saith my sufferings, then ? If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling...their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence... | |
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