 | George Barnett Smith - 1875 - 552 Seiten
...keenest description, and many of his lyrics bear testimony to the truth of his averment that G 2 ' Most men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.' One cannot help thinking that Shelley's natural place in the world would be that of a spiritualised... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1888 - 540 Seiten
...genuine. Shelley's later poems are softer in their tone, and the offspring of true self-knowledge — ' Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong,...They learn in suffering what they teach in song.' And the beautiful side of Shelley's character is that neither his sufferings nor his errors had taught... | |
 | Manfred - 1876 - 204 Seiten
...bleak Barrenness, o'er those thatdwell From fellow-worms apart, nor hive with Earth's wide hell! (') " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong...They learn in suffering what they teach in song." [Shelley's " Julian and Maddalo." (') Not. CANTO II. CANTO H. FOE Fool! prat'st thou of Love?— hath... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1876 - 336 Seiten
...— the many are always too strong for the one. He learned the lesson which he states so tersely : " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong...They learn in suffering what they teach in song." If the history of the Shelleys could be written in full, we might know what ancestor was repeated by... | |
 | Elliott W. Preston - 1876 - 206 Seiten
...bleak Barrenness, o'er those that dwell From fellow-worms apart, nor hive with Earth's wide hell! (') " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong...They learn in suffering what they teach in song." [Shtllcy's " Julian and Maddalo." («) Not. CANTO n. CANTO n. Wort. POOE Fool! prat'st thou of Love?... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 Seiten
...the necessary means to evoke the highest development of their genius. Shelley has said of poets : " Most wretched men are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in soug." Does any one suppose that Burns would have sung as he did, had he been rich, respectable, and... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 322 Seiten
...poets have often been prompted by the acuteness of their personal sufferings. As Shelley says, they are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. The most facetious of all Charles Lamb's letters was written to Bernard Barton in a fit of the deepest... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1877 - 296 Seiten
...his exquisite sensibilities. Has not the author of Julian and Maddalo indeed himself declared that " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song ?" For this reason we are bound to trace the connection between his individual life and song. Save... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 Seiten
...Father's will, And receive it hush'd and stUl. Suffering is my "worship now . 3247. SUFFERING. Fruits of p'd in Shelley. Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss ; Thou hast gain'd, in the... | |
 | Alexander William Kinglake - 1877 - 508 Seiten
...subjection undergone in old times, and the days of the Tartar yoke; for, if Shelley speaks truly— ' Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in sorrow what they teach in song.' "With but little in their own condition of life that can well provoke... | |
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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song. 
