 Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets...  Essays Upon Authors and Books - Page 67by William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Dando Sedding - Gardens - 1891 - 290 pages
...narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets...; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweetsmelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much loved earth more lovely : her world... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Christian life - 1891 - 304 pages
...which to those who love it is all " beauty to the eye and music to the ear." " Yet Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets...; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely." * In the... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1894 - 358 pages
...which to those who love it is all " beauty to the eye and music to the ear." " Yet Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets...; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the toomuch-loved earth more lovely." ' In the... | |
 | James Baldwin - English poetry - 1894 - 376 pages
...narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatever else may make the too-much-loved... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1895 - 944 pages
...That type of perfect in the mind, In Nature we can nowhere find." " Nature," says Sidney, " never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done. . . . Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden." Has this world ever brought forth " so... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1896 - 232 pages
...narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets...done; neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Criticism - 1896 - 330 pages
...narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging only within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry, as divers poets have done, neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers : nor whatsoever else may make the too much... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Literary Criticism - 1896 - 448 pages
...Poets have done, neither with plesant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers : nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brasen, the Poets only deliver a golden : but let those things alone and goe to man, for whom as the... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Literature - 1896 - 456 pages
...Poets have done, neither with plesant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers : nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brasen, the Poets only deliver a golden : but let those things alone and goe to man, for whom as the... | |
 | University extension - 1895 - 748 pages
...narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging within the zodiac of his own wit. Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved... | |
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