 | Alexander Simpson Patterson - 1862 - 236 Seiten
...glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To straggle through dark ways ; and, when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...whence he blew Soul-animating strains— alas, too few I " Even in Wordsworth's own hands the Sonnet occasionally, but not often, gives a tnunpetsound. Here... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 Seiten
...finest of the old masters. As he says of Milton, we may say of himself with regard to the sonnet, — " In his hand The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains. "— " Wordsworth's sonnet never goes off, as it were, with a clap or repercussion at the close ; but... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 Seiten
...finest of the old masters. As he says of Milton, we may say of himself with regard to the sonnet, — " In his hand The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains. " — , " Wordsworth's sonnet never goes off, as it were, with a clap or repercussion at the close... | |
 | 1863 - 276 Seiten
...Scorn not the fonnet," (fays Wordfworth,) — " with this key Shakefpeare unlocked his heart : and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...Thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating ftrains — alas, too few ! " It feems fingular that Wordfworth, who began by making war upon form,... | |
 | Robert Henry Martley, Richard Denny Urlin - 1863 - 304 Seiten
...Scorn not the fonnet," (fays Wordfworth,) — " with this key Shakefpeare unlocked his heart : and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...Thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating ftrains — alas, too lew ! " It feems lingular that Wordfworth, who began by making war upon form,... | |
 | 1865 - 448 Seiten
...glowworm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and, when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1866 - 554 Seiten
...glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Fairy-land To struggle through dark ways; and, when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his...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 Seiten
...an exile's grief: It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in 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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Bombay (India : State). Board of Education - 1851 - 764 Seiten
...glow-worm lamp, It cheer'd mild SPENSER, call'd from faery land, To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell round the path of MILTON, in his...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... | |
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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 from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell... 
