Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Shelley - Page 106by John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 189 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...his fault, and he served to exemplify the statement long afterwards made by another poet — " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song." Milton, the elegant scholar, was permitted to battle on with his nephews as he best could; but Milton,... | |
| John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...his fault, and he served to exemplify the statement long afterwards made by another poet — " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach hi song." Milton, the elegant scholar, was permitted to battle on with his nephews as he best could... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...measure were called poetry. And I remember one remark, which then Maddalo made : he said — " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song." If I had been an unconnected man, I, from the moment, should have formed some plan Never to leave sweet... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 770 pages
...measure were called poetry. And I remember one remark, which then Maddalo made : he said — " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song." If I had been an unconnected man, I, from the moment, should have formed some plan Never to leave sweet... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 772 pages
...measure were called poetry. And I remember one remark, which then Maddalo made : he said — " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teacli in song." If I had been an unconnected man, I, from the moment, should have formed some plan... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1856 - 358 pages
...motto at once of its life and of its poetry, " Perfect through suffering." Shelley says:— " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song." But wrong is not always the stern schoolmistress of song. There are sufferings springing from other... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1856 - 344 pages
...of its poetry, "Perfect through suffering." Shelley says: — " Most wretched men Are яки I led into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song." But wrong is not always the stern schoolmistress of song. There are sufferings springing from other... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1860 - 522 pages
...measure were called poetry. And I remember one remark, which then Maddalo made : he said — "Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering wnat they teach in song." If I had been an unconnected man, 1 from the moment should have form'd some... | |
| Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...spiritual life — is happy above the lot of mere worldly intellects. When a late poet exclaims,—- " Most men Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song/' it was the expression of a passing morbid sentiment. So it was but a chance and discordant mood that... | |
| 1857 - 652 pages
...himself from some inward discord or distressing impression.' ' Most wretched Men,' said Shelley, " ' Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song.' All the Poets may, with a little explanation, be shown to illustrate this." — Pp. 145, 146. 150.... | |
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