 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 Seiten
...glow-worm 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 hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul animating strains — alas, too few ! ' Loving the Sonnet thus, it is not wonderful that we find... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 310 Seiten
...glow-worm 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...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! Since the time of Milton, sonnet-writing has been little in vogue, until the commencement of the... | |
 | 1857 - 336 Seiten
...a glowworm 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...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few !" What could be more finished, more perfect, whether you regard it for its mere fancy, or as a piece... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 312 Seiten
...glow-worm 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 hand The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul animating strains — alas, too few ! Since the time of Milton, sonnet-writing has been little... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 306 Seiten
...lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a clamp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul'animating strains—alas, too few ! Since the time of Milton, sonnet-writing has been little in vogue, until... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 Seiten
...glow-worm lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, called 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 ; when he blew Soul-anhnating strains — alas,' too few!" It is the poets who have best revealed the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 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 hand The thing hecame a trumpet, whence he hlew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! MILTON. Milton ! thou shouldst... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 Seiten
...a man ; So he it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! WORDSWORTH. ' On the Period of Childhood ' when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The Thing hecame a trumpet ; whence he hlew Soul-animating strains— alas too few ! WORDSWORVH. ' Miscel. Sotuutt.'... | |
 | Charles Kent - 1858 - 280 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 414 Seiten
...It cheer' d mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways, and when a damp Pell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few I" It is the poets who have best revealed the hidden harmony that lies in our short Saxon-English words... | |
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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... 
