...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...of its poetry, "Perfect through suffering." Shelley says: — " Most wretched men Are яки I led 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...

...life — is happy above the lot of mere worldly intellects. When a late poet exclaims,—- " Most men Are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song/' it was the expression of a passing morbid sentiment. So it was but a chance and discordant mood that...

...Ishmael on his head. " His hand for every man, and every man's hand against him." " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering, what they teach in Song." Whether or not the world is a loser by this, the sequel has shown. It has lost an indifferent statesman,...

...worse man into reckless dissipation, a weaker man into silent despair. ' Most men,' he says himself, Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Whether this be the best or most usual training for the poet may well be doubted, but it is quite indubitable...

...flint about his mind, but the influence of poverty and suffering,—for true it is that ' Wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song,'— and latterly the power of a genuine, though somewhat narrow piety, struck out glorious scintillations...