 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 oldal
...the poets whose title is engraved on the rock by Shelley in ' Julian and Maddalo': Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song. The great Atlantic race of American men of letters, the really wonderful Boston group from Longfellow... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1860 - 166 oldal
...to stop that " damnable iteration" by discrediting the notion. Know then that if " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song" — it is not true that oysters secrete in suffering what women wear as necklaces. Disease would be... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1862 - 164 oldal
...the school of Adversity, and which Shelley refers to in the well-known lines : " Moat wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song." "We believe, however, it will be found that it is poetry that first cradles the man into suffering... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 oldal
...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ! Poems written in 1821. Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Julian and Maddalo. JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. 1795-1820. When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled... | |
 | 1881 - 996 oldal
...they deem right and just, and against force and falsehood. Poets, we are told, by one himself a poet " Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song." Nonconformists have cause especially to rejoice in the bigotry and persecution to which they have been... | |
 | 1878 - 684 oldal
...she muttered them over and over again to herself, like an echo of the past — ' Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong — They learn in suffering what they teach in song.' Oh, had it been so for him ? Is it true that the voice, once trembling with anguish, can utter notes... | |
 | Acrostics - 1867 - 302 oldal
...peopling all the gloom." 5. " And I remember one remark which then He made : he said, ' Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.' " 6. " Swift shadow of the sun, Wakes from the earth a chequered tapestry, To greet his footsteps as... | |
 | John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1867 - 388 oldal
...would be solved, and the hope, which we call heaven, would be realised on earth. And therefore men " Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song." APPENDIX. No. I. KEATS ON KEAN AND SHAKSPEARE. Champion, Sunday, Da. 21, 1817. MR. KEAN.—" In our... | |
 | 1878 - 782 oldal
...she muttered them over and over again to herself, like an echo of the past — ' Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong They learn in suffering what they teach in song.' Oh, had it been so for him ? Is it true that the voice, once trembling with anguish, can utter notes... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 oldal
...devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ! Poems written in 182i. Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Jul/an and Mnjj.,!a. JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. 1795-1820. '\ '\ THEN Freedom from her mountain height *... | |
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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song. 
