 A thing slipp'd idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes • From whence 'tis nourished : The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and, like the current, flies Each bound it chafes.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 301876Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1873 - 112 pages
...You are rapt, sir, in some work, some dedication To the great lord. Poet. A thing slipped idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourished. The fire i' the flint Shows not,3 till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and, like the current,... | |
 | Scotland - 1876 - 906 pages
...•spent with giving. Mallvtt. A bad comparison, for the light itself consumes the candle. Btlton. As the mind consumes the flesh, but not itself. But...call in Shakespeare to help me — " Our poesy is us n gum which oozes From whence 'tis nourished : the tire in the flint Shows not till it be struck... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama (Comedy) - 1876 - 474 pages
...Ariel confined in a pine tree, and requires an artificial process to let it out. Shakspeare says : " Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourished . . . our gentle flame Provokes itself, and. like the current, flies Each bound it chafes." * I shall... | |
 | James Brown - 1878 - 258 pages
...difficult to find a poetical exponent who can give the theological body of the time its form and pressure. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourished ; and in order to be a complete exponent of the religious nourishment of the present day, a poet would... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...lively description of the genius of poetry and of his own in particular. ' A thing slipt idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourish'd. The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be struck : our gentle flame Provokes itself, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 590 pages
...You are rapt, sir, in some work, some dedication to the great lord. Poet. A thing slipp'd idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes* From whence 'tis nourish'd : the fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and,... | |
 | James Brown Selkirk - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 260 pages
...difficult to find a poetical exponent who can give the theological body of the time its form and pressure. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourished ; and in order to be a complete exponent of the religious nourishment of the present day, a poet would... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1879 - 884 pages
...You are rapt, sir, in some work, some dedication To the great lord. Poet. A thing slipp'd idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourish'd: the fire i' the flint Shows not, till it be struck; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1886 - 894 pages
...the " Dowie Dens" has been produced under analogous conditions ? Shakespeare teaches us that — " Our poesy is as a gum which oozes From whence 'tis nourished ;" and certainly the honey does not more clearly possess the flavor of the heather, the lichen does... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 692 pages
...You are rapt, sir, in some work, some dedication To the great lord. Poet. A thing slipped idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourished. The fire i' the flint Shows not, till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and, like the current,... | |
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