| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1860 - 522 Seiten
...as in measure were called poetry. And I remember one remark, which then Maddalo made : he said — "Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering wnat they teach in song." If I had been an unconnected man, 1 from the moment should have form'd some... | |
| Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 Seiten
...spiritual life — is happy above the lot of mere worldly intellects. When a late poet exclaims,—- " Most men Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song/' it was the expression of a passing morbid sentiment. So it was but a chance and discordant mood that... | |
| 1857 - 652 Seiten
...himself from some inward discord or distressing impression.' ' Most wretched Men,' said Shelley, " ' Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song.' All the Poets may, with a little explanation, be shown to illustrate this." — Pp. 145, 146. 150.... | |
| Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 366 Seiten
...half the curse of Ishmael on his head. " His hand for every man, and every man's hand against him." " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong...They learn in suffering, what they teach in Song." Whether or not the world is a loser by this, the sequel has shown. It has lost an indifferent statesman,... | |
| George Brimley - 1858 - 376 Seiten
...worse man into reckless dissipation, a weaker man into silent despair. ' Most men,' he says himself, Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Whether this be the best or most usual training for the poet may well be doubted, but it is quite indubitable... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1860 - 370 Seiten
...of the flint about his mind, but the influence of poverty and suffering, — for true it is that ' Wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song," — and latterly the power of a- genuine, though somewhat narrow piety, struck out glorious scintillations... | |
| Henry Hegart Breen - 1862 - 164 Seiten
...is received in the school of Adversity, and which Shelley refers to in the well-known lines : " Moat wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song." "We believe, however, it will be found that it is poetry that first cradles the man into suffering... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ! Poems written in 1821. Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong...; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Julian and Maddalo. JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. 1795-1820. When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled... | |
| 1881 - 996 Seiten
...they deem right and just, and against force and falsehood. Poets, we are told, by one himself a poet " Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song." Nonconformists have cause especially to rejoice in the bigotry and persecution to which they have been... | |
| 1878 - 782 Seiten
...often repeated ?' And she muttered them over and over again to herself, like an echo of the past — ' Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong They learn in suffering what they teach in song.' Oh, had it been so for him ? Is it true that the voice, once trembling with anguish, can utter notes... | |
| |