| John Wright - 1853 - 144 páginas
...character of an English gentleman. FURTHER OBSERVATIONS IN JUSTIFICATION OF THE AUTHOR'S STRICTURES. " Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed...divine ; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse, (Which, in the docile season of their youth, It was denied them to acquire, through lack Of culture... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 páginas
...license, to confirm, in part, the beautiful exclamation of the author of the Excursion : — 11 0, many are the poets that are sown By nature; men endowed...The vision and the faculty divine, Yet wanting the facility of verse." MODERN ENGLISH POETS. WILLIAM COWPER, 1731. JAKES BEATTIE, 1735. JOHN LOGAN, 1748.... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 páginas
...his dignity." Who is not at once delighted and improved, when the Wordsworth himself exclaims, " Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed...Beings, ,, All but a scattered few, live out their tune, Husbanding that which they possess within, And go to the grave, unthought of. Strongest minds... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 páginas
...I learned To weigh with care his words, and to rejoice In the plain presence of his dignity ! Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; Men endowed...with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; Yi't wanting the accomplishment of Verse (Which, in the docile season of their youth. It was denied... | |
| Mary Bayard Clarke - 1854 - 250 páginas
...produced any great poets, still these " foot-prints of the Muse " will show that we possess some of "the poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with...highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine." As the note of the mocking-bird in our native woods is sweeter to the ear of patriotism than the song... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1854 - 348 páginas
...severe. Or a nice backwardness, afraid of shame ; 2for hating e'er, as life advanced, been led £y circumstance to take unto the height The measure of...themselves, these favored beings. All but a scattered few—lice out Uteir time Husbanding that tr/de/i they ^o*«*s within. And go to thegrave unthought... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1856 - 538 páginas
...days I learned To weigh with care his words, and to rejoice In the plain presence of his dignity! Oh! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; Men endowed...with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; (Which, in the docile season of their youth, It was denied them to acquire, through lack Of culture... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 páginas
...days I learned To weigh with care his words, and to rejoice In the plain presence of his dignity ! Oh! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed...divine ; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse, (Which, in the docile season of their youth, It was denied them to acquire, through lack Of culture... | |
| Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 336 páginas
...another sample in the "Excursion:" — " O many are the poets that are sown By nature ; men endow'd with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine,...verse ; Nor having e'er, as life advanced, been led By circumstances to take the height, The measure of themselves." This is but an amplification of a passage... | |
| Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 342 páginas
...poets that are sown By nature ; men endow'd with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine, Tet wanting the accomplishment of verse ; Nor having e'er, as life advanced, been led By circumstances to take the height, The measure of themselves." This is but an amplification of a passage... | |
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