...a man ; So he it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! WORDSWORTH. ' On the Period of Childhood ' when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The Thing hecame a trumpet ; whence he hlew Soul-animating strains— alas too few ! WORDSWORVH. ' Miscel. Sotuutt.'...

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

...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...

...gay myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glowworm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from faery-land To struggle...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few !" What could be more finished, more perfect, whether you regard it for its mere fancy, or as a piece...

...a gay myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow; a glowworm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from faery-land To struggle...thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains,—alas, too few I" What could be more finished, more perfect, whether you regard it for its...

...— "A glowworm Lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark waysj and, when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas ! too few !" There is recorded in Boswell's Johnson one of the most ludicrous literary conversations touching...

...myrtle-leaf Amid the 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 when a damp Pell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating...

...His visionary brow : a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To straggle through dark ways ; and, when a damp Fell round the...whence he blew Soul-animating strains— alas, too few I " Even in Wordsworth's own hands the Sonnet occasionally, but not often, gives a tnunpetsound. Here...

...finest of the old masters. As he says of Milton, we may say of himself with regard to the sonnet, — " In his hand The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains. " — , " Wordsworth's sonnet never goes off, as it were, with a clap or repercussion at the close...

...finest of the old masters. As he says of Milton, we may say of himself with regard to the sonnet, — " In his hand The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains. "— " Wordsworth's sonnet never goes off, as it were, with a clap or repercussion at the close ; but...