| William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...learned To weigh with care his words, and to rejoice In the plain presence of his dignity I Oh ! many arc the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, Tnc vision and the faculty divino ; -^ .^ Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse, í (Which, in the... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - English language - 1872 - 274 pages
...as well as born." Wordsworth, too, has expressed himself most unequivocally on this subject:— " 0 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,... | |
| 1881 - 314 pages
...does in his essay on Mr. Arnold's poetry, in confutation of Wordsworth's seeming paradox that — " Many are the poets that are sown By Nature : men endowed...divine: Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse." For it is only a seeming paradox. " Poet " is a word of many meanings. Its first meaning, the one which... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...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 gift', The vision and the faculty divine, Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse, (Which, in the docile... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1874 - 88 pages
...and to rejoice How precious when in riper days I learned In the plain presence of his dignity ! Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed...faculty divine ; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse 80 And go to the grave, unthought of. Strongest minds Are often those of whom the noisy world Hears... | |
| T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 pages
...the old man whose natural eloquence and dignity of demeanour he extols. The poem then proceeds :— O 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 and... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Ibid. St. 11. The vision and the faculty divine ; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. The Excursion. Booh i. The imperfect offices of prayer and praise. Ibid. That mighty orb of song, The... | |
| Georg Brandes - Literature, Modern - 1875 - 544 pages
...vi med Fornøielse vilde skjænke en Digter. Den smaalige Hensyntagen til Sandsynligheden, den Oh! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature; Men endowed...faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of Verse . . . The Excursion I. The wanderer. smaalige Ængstelighed i Motiveringen er i høi Grad trættende... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...In the plain presence of his dignity 1 0, many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ! men endow'd with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty 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... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Ibid. St. n. The vision and the faculty divine ; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. The Excursion. Book i. The imperfect offices of prayer and praise. Ibid. That mighty orb of song, The... | |
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