...Sicilians. " Scorn not the fonnet," (fays Wordfworth,) — " with this key Shakefpeare unlocked his heart : and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in...Thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating ftrains — alas, too few ! " It feems fingular that Wordfworth, who began by making war upon form,...

...Sicilians. " Scorn not the fonnet," (fays Wordfworth,) — " with this key Shakefpeare unlocked his heart : and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in...Thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating ftrains — alas, too lew ! " It feems lingular that Wordfworth, who began by making war upon form,...

...cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glowworm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and,...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas ! too few. II. How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks The wayward brain, to saunter through a wood ! An old...

...cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways, and...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few !" It is the pouts who have best revealed the hidden harmony that lies in our short Saxon-English words...

...visionary brow: a glowworm .lamp, Camoens sooth'd with it an exile's grief: It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and...his hand The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-anirnating strains — alas! too few," The sonnets of Wordsworth are in no sense inferior to the...

...Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Fairy-land To struggle through dark ways; and, when a damp Fell...thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains—alas, too few!" But the Sonnet is not confined to the Old World:—certain also of our own...

...might be almost said (as Wordsworth says of the sonnet in the hands of Milton) that in his grasp — " The Thing became a Trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas ! too few." A true heart-brother of young Smythe — now prematurely dead and buried, but happily, not yet forgotten...

...Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Fairy-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...blew Soul-animating strains, — alas ! too few." The regret expressed by Wordsworth, in the conclusion of his sonnet, will, I hope, serve as a warning...

...DANTE crown'd His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheer'd mild SPENSER, call'd from faery land, To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few !" 9. Paraphrase the following passage, and explain the 4 theory of a future life therein set down...

...cypress with which Dante bound His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and,...thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains—alas ! too few. II. ON HIS OWN RLINDNESS. When I consider how my light is spent Ere half...