...did Tasso sound ; Camoens soothed with it an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few! EXPERIENCE. —Jane Taylor. How false is found, as on in life we go, Our early estimate of bliss and...

...did Tasso sound ; Camoens soothed with it an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few! EXPERIENCE. Jane Taylor. How false is found, as on in life we go, Our early estimate of bliss and woe...

...did Tasso sound ; Camoens soothed with it an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few! EXPERIENCE. fane Taylor. How false is found, as on in life we go, Our early estimate of bliss and woe...

...cypress with which Dante crown'd His visionary hrow ; a glowworm lamp, It chccr'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and,...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! The sonnet, from its very brevity, and from its completeness within itself, has an advantage over...

...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...of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; when he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few !" It is the poets who have best revealed the...

...did Tasso sound ; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay rnyrtle-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 Fell round...

...did Tasso sound ; With it Camoens 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 cheer'd mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways, and when a damp Fell round...

...Alps. This service in disclosing the hidden powers of the sonnet has been acknowledged by Wordsworth : "When a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The Thing hecame. a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few !"f And Landor has finely...

...Critic, you have frowned Mindless of its just honours ; with this key Shakspeare unlocked his heart : — A glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called...his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul animating strains — alas, too few ! ' Loving the Sonnet thus, it is not wonderful that we find...

...Critic, you have frowned Mindless of its just honours ; with this key Shakspcare unlocked his heart : — A glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called...dark ways ; and, when a damp Fell round the path of Hilton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul animating strains — alas, too...