 I hear of poets' fury* tell, But (God wot) wot not what they mean by it: And this I swear by blackest brook of hell, I am no pick-purse of another's wit. How falls it then, that with so smooth an ease My thoughts I speak, and what I speak doth flow In...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3711910Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 pages
...In verse, and that my verse best wits doth please? Guess me the cause — what is it thus ? — fye, no. Or so ? — much less. How then ? sure thus it...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with STELLA'S kiss. x. Of all the kings that ever here did reign, Edward, named Fourth, as first in praise I name, Not... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 pages
...pick-purse of another's wit. How falls it then, that with so smooth an ease My thoughts I speak ; and what I speak doth flow In verse, and that my verse best wits...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with Stella's kiss. 84. High way, since you my chief Parnassus be, And that my Muse, to some ears not unsweet, Tempers... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 pages
...pick-purse of another's wit. How falls it then, that with so smooth an ease My thoughts I speak ; and what I speak doth flow In verse, and that my verse best wits...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with Stella's kiss. 84. High way, since you my chief Parnassus be, And that my Muse, to some ears not unsweet, Tempers... | |
 | Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - 356 pages
...doth flow In verse, and that my verse best wits doth please? Guess we the cause! What, is it this? Fie, no. Or so? Much less. How then? Sure thus it...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with Stella's kiss. ETERNAL LOVE. T EAVE me, O Love, which readiest but to dust; And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things;... | |
 | Frederic Ives Carpenter - 1897 - 350 pages
...doth flow In verse, and that my verse best wits doth please? Guess we the cause! What, is it this? Fie, no. Or so? Much less. How then? Sure thus it...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with Stella's kiss. ETERNAL LOVE. T EAVE me, O Love, which reachest but to dust; And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things;... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1897 - 278 pages
...verse, and that my verse best wits doth please ? Guess me the cause — what is it thus ? — fye, no. Or so ? — much less. How then ? sure thus it is, My lips are sweet, inspired by STELLA'S kiss. x. Of all the kings that ever here did reign, Edward, named Fourth, as first in praise... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...pick-purse of another's wit. How falls it then, that with so smooth an ease My thoughts I speak ; and what I speak doth flow In verse, and that my verse best wits...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with Stella's kiss. Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame, Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but th«e ; Thine... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 pages
...pick-purse of another's wit. How falls it then, that with so smooth an ease My thoughts I speak; and what I speak doth flow In verse, and that my verse best wits...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with Stella's kiss. Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame, Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee j Thine... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 pages
...pick-purse of another's wit. How falls it then, that with so smooth an ease My thoughts I speak ; and what I speak doth flow In verse, and that my verse best wits...is, My lips are sweet, inspired with Stella's kiss. 84. High way, since you my chief Parnassus be, And that my Muse, to some ears not unsweet, Tempers... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 336 pages
...pick-purse of another's wit! How falls it then ? that with so smooth an ease My thoughts I speak! and what I speak, doth flow In verse! and that my verse, best...is. My lips are sweet, inspired with STELLA'S kiss. COME, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor... | |
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