 | 1865 - 448 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheer'd 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 !" It is the pouts who have best revealed the hidden harmony that lies in our short Saxon-English words... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1866 - 554 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 páginas
...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 when a damp Fell...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... | |
 | Mark Rochester (pseud. [i.e. William Charles Mark Kent.]) - 1866 - 250 páginas
...might be almost said (as Wordsworth says of the sonnet in the hands of Milton) that in his grasp — " The Thing became a Trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas ! too few." A true heart-brother of young Smythe — now prematurely dead and buried, but happily, not yet forgotten... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - 1867 - 372 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 páginas
...which Dante bound His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and, when a damp Fell...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 páginas
...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.... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1867 - 426 páginas
...Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheerM mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways, and when a damp Fell...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... | |
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Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an 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 cheered mild Spenser, called... 
