| William Wordsworth - 1836 - 368 páginas
...glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We Poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. Now, whether it were by peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given, Yet it befel, that,... | |
| Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 540 páginas
...in joy Following his plough, along the mountain side : By our own spirits are ice deified; We Pocts in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness." We have claimed for Wordsworth, rank among the greatest of English Poets. We appeal to the tribunal... | |
| 1864 - 640 páginas
...when he drew with so much power the panic of his own soul in contemplating the possible future : — " We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness." That was the fate of Clare. During hie long insanity, from the age of forty-four to his death at seventy,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 544 páginas
...idle couplet about the insanity of poets: We poets enter on our path with gladness, Bat thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. If he did not mean madness in the ordinary sense, he should not hare written this line ; if he did, he ought not to have fallen, in the teeth of his better knowledge,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 páginas
...glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We Poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. Now, whether it were hy peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given, Yet it bcfel, that,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 páginas
...in joy Following his plough, along the mountain side ; By our own spirits we are deified ; We poet» in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. PICTURE OF A BEGGAR. THE aged man Had placed his staff across the broad, smooth »tone That overlays... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 páginas
...in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We Poeta in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. Now, whether it were by peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given, Yet it befcl, that,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 páginas
...glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain side ; By our own spirits we are deified ; We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. PICTURE OF A BEGGAR. TRE aged man Had placed his staff across the broad, smooth stone That overlays... | |
| 1895 - 666 páginas
...has influenced the selection of materials. To both classes of readers the memoir will prove painful. We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness, says Wordsworth. To Symonds, who claimed to rank as a poet, and spoke of himself as such, the second... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 páginas
...glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We Poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof come in the end despondency and Now, whether it were by peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given, Yet it befel, that,... | |
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