 | Electronic journals - 1888 - 564 pages
...This is the meaning the word now bears. The other meaning you mention is not given. GEO, C. PRATT.— Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Shelley, ' Julian and Maddalo.' E. WALFORD ("A blue moon ").— See 6'b 8. ii. 125, 236, 335. TWC—... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...appreciates the " dull narcotic" of poetry to unburden the grief-laden soul. Shelley says, and truly : — "Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong;...They learn in suffering what they teach in song." Hear Tennyson in illustration : — " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put iu words the grief 1 feel... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1852 - 346 pages
...life and of its poetry, " Perfect through suffering." Shelley says:— " Most wretched men Are orndled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song." But wrong is not always the stern schoolmistress of song. There are sufferings springing from other... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...also in his fault, and he served to exemplify the statement long afterwards made by another poet — " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong,...They learn in suffering what they teach in song." Milton, the elegant scholar, was permitted to battle on with his nephews as he best could; but Milton,... | |
 | John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...also in his fault, and he served to exemplify the statement long afterwards made by another poet — " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong,...They learn in suffering what they teach in song." Milton, the elegant scholar, was permitted to battle on with his nephews as he best could ; but Milton,... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...also in his fault, and he served to exemplify the statement long afterwards made by another poet — " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach hi song." Milton, the elegant scholar, was permitted to battle on with his nephews as he best could... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 770 pages
...as in measure were called poetry. And I remember one remark, which then Maddalo made : he said — " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong...They learn in suffering what they teach in song." If I had been an unconnected man, I, from the moment, should have formed some plan Never to leave sweet... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...as in measure were called poetry. And I remember one remark, which then Maddalo made : he said — " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong...They learn in suffering what they teach in song." If I had been an unconnected man, I, from the moment, should have formed some plan Never to leave sweet... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 772 pages
...as in measure were called poetry. And I remember one remark, which then Maddalo made : he said — " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teacli in song." If I had been an unconnected man, I, from the moment, should have formed some plan... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1856 - 358 pages
...for the motto at once of its life and of its poetry, " Perfect through suffering." Shelley says:— " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong;...They learn in suffering what they teach in song." But wrong is not always the stern schoolmistress of song. There are sufferings springing from other... | |
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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song. 
