 ... wrath) fell headlong from the fields of air, Yet a rich guerdon waits on minds that dare, If aught be in them of immortal seed And reason govern that audacious flight Which heavenward they direct. — Then droop not thou, Erroneously renewing a sad...  Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks - Page 42edited by - 1857 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1922 - 472 pages
...a Byronic gloom, preached anew the gospel of joy. He tells one who was giving way to pessimism that A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight. of their fellows. After Waterloo had put an end to the power but not to the evil wrought by Napoleon... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...varying childness cures in me Thoughts that would thick my blood. Winter's Tale. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 169. 13 morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. MOORE — Lalla Rookh. Parad WORDSWORTH — From the Dark Chambers. u Corn shall rrake the young men cheerful. ZacJtariah. IX. 17.... | |
 | Frank Vigor Morley - 1924 - 226 pages
...The sonnet had been an attempt to free Gillies from the 'dark chambers of dejection' by proving that: 'A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.' Gillies's replying verses read: 'Wordsworth! Since first in scenes now far remote, Thy varied eloquence... | |
 | Marguerite Wilkinson - 1925 - 346 pages
...longevity. But perhaps I ought here to add that mine has been generally carried on out of doors. . . . A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight. — William Wordsworth Fiom "The Prelude." And now it would content me to yield up Those lofty hopes... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1927 - 734 pages
...— Then droop not thou, Erroneously renewing a sad vow In the low dell 'mid Roslin's faded grove : A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight. (1814) LINES WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF IN A COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S POEM "THE EXCURSION," UPON HEARING OF... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 pages
...— Then droop nut thou, Erroneously renewing a sad vow In the low dell 'mid Roslin's faded grove : A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.' — p. 48. To a mind of high intellectual aspirations, there is perhaps no earthly motive for conquering... | |
 | 1837 - 840 pages
...judicious daring and calm endurance. A poet of the highest experience and authority has said — " A cheerful life is what the Muses love ; A soaring spirit is their prime delight" We shall be happy to welcome Mr. Wyatt's tiext descent from the celestial regions. In taking leave... | |
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