 | Education - 1884 - 664 pages
...human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads, One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." Nature herself gives us a broad hint to the same purpose.... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe, Percy Pinkerton - English drama - 1885 - 354 pages
...human wit; If these hiii! made one poem's period, And all combiu'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one...virtue can digest. But how unseemly is it for my sex, Hy discipline of arms and chivalry, Hy nature, and the terror of my name, To harbour thoughts effeminate... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 250 pages
...human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combiu'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one...words no virtue can digest. But how unseemly is it lor my sex, My discipline of arms and chivalry, My nature, and the terror of my name. To harbour thoughts... | |
 | 1885 - 626 pages
...human wit. If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one...the least Which into words no virtue can digest.' Our readers will probably agree with us that this is a fine passage, but that, fine though it is, it... | |
 | Frank Carr - 1885 - 534 pages
...human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." Figurative language (Correspondential) is not, however,... | |
 | Arthur Wilson Verity - 1886 - 116 pages
...poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless head One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least Which into words no virtue can digest. Mr Swinburne 1 in one of his essays takes four lines from Wordsworth's poem ' The Solitary Reaper.'... | |
 | George Saintsbury - England - 1887 - 530 pages
...human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one...the least Which into words no virtue can digest." It is no wonder that the whole school has been dwarfed in the general estimation, since its work was... | |
 | Edward Dowden - Criticism - 1888 - 546 pages
...human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads, One thought,...the least, Which into words no virtue can digest." If another passage in " Tamburlaine " : — " Still climbing after knowledge infinite," announced the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - English poetry - 1888 - 356 pages
...read "lost"! If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness ; Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the best, Which into words no virtue can digest." * Spenser, at his best, has come as near to expressing... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 408 pages
...human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one...terror of my name, To harbour thoughts effeminate and faint ! Save only that in beauty's just applause, With whose instinct the soul of man is touched ;... | |
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If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there... 
