 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...  Essays and Reviews - Page 20by Edwin Percy Whipple - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...EXPRESSION. If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their master's thoughts, And ev'ry sweetness that inspired their hearts, And minds, and...flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive H The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd in beauty's... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...master's thoughts, And ev'ry sweetness that inspired their hearts, And minds, and muses on admirud themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still...flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive H The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd in beauty's... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...EXPRESSION. If all the pens that ever poet held Had fed the feeling of their master's thoughts, And ev'ry sweetness that inspired their hearts, And minds, and...themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still Prom their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...are to be inferred rather than read ; in the words of Marlowe, he has " Beauty beyond Expression." If all the pens that ever poet held, Had fed the feeling...immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we pereeive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 752 pages
...passage. " If all the pens that ever poet held Had fed the feeling of their master's thoughts, And ev'ry sweetness that inspired their hearts, And minds, and...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 pages
...passage. " If all the pens that ever poet held Had fed the feeling of their master's thoughts, And ev'ry sweetness that inspired their hearts, And minds, and...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 402 pages
...EXPRESSION. If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their master's thoughts, And ev'ry sweetness that inspired their hearts, And minds, and...flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive H The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd in beauty's... | |
 | 1854 - 998 pages
...that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their master thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, And minds and muses on admired themes...mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human art, If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 268 pages
...Had fed the feelings of their master's thoughts And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly...highest reaches of a human wit : If these had made one's poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - 1850 - 444 pages
...their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still I From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as...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 grace,... | |
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