 An idle poet, here and there, Looks round him; but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, They...  The Quarterly Review - Page 1071923Full view - About this book
 | Coventry Patmore - 1854 - 212 pages
...Looks round him, but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a life-time each ; They lift...unheeded dream Is all the light of all their day. III. Love in Idleness. XCEPT love's toil has love for prize, rl •*-• (And then he's Hercules,)... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1855 - 922 pages
...Looks round him, but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men once a lifetime each ; They lift their...unheeded dream Is all the light of all their day.— p. 110. The ' accompaniments' and ' sentences' which alternate with the ' Idyls' that professedly cany... | |
 | Coventry Kersey D. Patmore - 1857 - 324 pages
...The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a life-time eachj They lift their heavy lids, and look ; And, lo, what...unheeded dream Is all the light of all their day. II. III. The Impossibility. OF all the impossibilities Of love's achieving, surely none So utter as... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paul - 1857 - 336 pages
...glowing with health and animation, might almost seem to deny any kindred between them. CHAPTER XVI. Love wakes men, once a life-time each : They lift...give thanks, and some blaspheme, And most forget. Tlie Angel in the House. < "REMEMBER, Evelyn/ said Clara GasJ-*' coigne, on the following morning,... | |
 | Mrs. H. B. Paull - 1857 - 348 pages
...lift their heavy llda and loot; And, lo l wh:<t one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then sbnt the book; And some give thanks, and some blaspheme, And most forget. The Angel iff the thuse. "REMEMRER, Evelyn," said Clara Gascoigne, on the following morning, as she... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pages
...Looks round him, but, for all the rest. The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest Love wakes men, once a life-time each ; They lift...unheeded dream Is all the light of all their day." " Till Eve was brought to Adam, he A solitary desert trod, Though in the great society Of Nature, angels,... | |
 | 1858 - 590 pages
...miss in the numerous sweet, easy, and flowing verses, of the kind we have just been criticising:— " Love wakes men, once a life-time each ; They lift...unheeded dream Is all the light of all their day." While we are on the subject of Mr Patmore's treatment of character, we must note that his incidental... | |
 | 1858 - 688 pages
...in the numerous sweet, easy, and flowing verses, of the kind we have just been criticising : — " Love wakes men, once a life-time each ; They lift...some blaspheme, And most forget ; but either way, Thai and the Child's unheeded dream Js all the light of all their day." While we are on the subject... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1858 - 512 pages
...Looks round him, but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a life-time each ; They lift...And some give thanks, and some blaspheme, And most foeget ; but, either way, That aud the Child's unheeded dream Is all the light of all their day." "... | |
 | 1858 - 516 pages
...Looks round him, but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a life-time each ; They lift their heavy lids, and look ; And, In, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book. And some give thanks, and... | |
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