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" Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The sonnet glittered, a gay myrtle leaf, Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow : a glowworm lamp... "
On the Structure of English Verse - Page 123
by Charles Witcomb - 1884 - 162 pages
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Text-book of Poetry: From Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, Beattie, Goldsmith ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 pages
...Sonnet; Critic, you have frown'd, Mindless of its just honours: with this key Shakespeare unlock'd his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease...With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief: The Sonnet glitter'da gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crown'd His visionary brow: a glow-worm...
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Sonnets of the Sacred Year

Samuel John Stone - 1875 - 103 pages
...sweetness and with dignity from the deprecation with which it begins to the trumpet-blowing of its close. " Scorn not the sonnet ; critic, you have frowned Mindless of its just honours : with this key Shakspeare unlocked his heart ; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; Jt INTRO...
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An Elocutionary Manual: With an Introductory Essay on the Study of ...

1875 - 448 pages
...poor did not envy the splendour of the rich. SCORN NOT THE SONNET.' BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. • CORN not the Sonnet ; critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours ; with this key Shakspeare unlocked his heart ; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound ; A thousand...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 79

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1876 - 610 pages
...how, again, to others it was the medicine of lifelong sorrows ; as when the melody Of this small late gave ease to Petrarch's wound ; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound -, And Camoens soothed with it an exile's grief. In like manner, in the history of the several other...
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The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion, Volume 2

1842 - 330 pages
...Wordsworth's at hand, at once the highest defence and purest eulogium upon sonnets and the writers of them. Scorn not the Sonnet ; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honors ; with this key Shakspeare unlocked his heart ; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 69

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
...not the Sonnet : Critic ! you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours : with this key Shakspeare unlocked his heart ; the melody Of this small lute...soothed an exile's grief ; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow : a glow-worm lamp It cheered...
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Psychology of Language: A Local Habitation and a Name

John Morris Dorsey - 1971 - 196 pages
..."Sonnet on the Sonnet": Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned. Mindless of its just honors; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the...thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camb'ens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which...
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A Short History of English Versification from the Earliest Times to the ...

Max Kaluza - 1911 - 422 pages
...seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! (Wordsworth, Upon Westminster Bridge.) Scom not the sonnet! Critic, you have frowned Mindless...heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrach's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound, With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief;...
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The Birth of the Modern Mind: Self, Consciousness, and the Invention of the ...

Paul Oppenheimer - 1989 - 217 pages
...recognized. Wordsworth himself opens his second sonnet (published in 1827) with a rebuke to scornful critics: "Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, / Mindless of its just honours." In fact much of the disdain heaped on the form, as well as a good deal of the foolishness that has...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...begin in gladness; ChER; EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P; PoEL-4 Scorn not the sonnet; critic, you have frowned 131 Lov honors; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; (1. 1—3) 132 Milton, in his hand The thing...
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