...not have comprehended Miy other than the voice which spoke to them, as of old, in songs and Wlads. But the voice came : it always comes when wanted....Ebenezer Elliott, an individual who was specially born înd hred for the occasion. If in another class of society, he would have been heard with suspicion...

...poet by understanding the nobility of the man. It is not indeed that he was notably one of those who "are cradled into poetry by wrong," and "learn in suffering what they teach in song," for his temperament demanded happiness for its atmosphere, and pleasure expanded without enervating...

...poet by understanding the nobility of the man. It is not indeed that he was notably one of those who " are cradled into poetry by wrong," and "learn in suffering what they teach in song," for his temperament demanded happiness for its atmosphere, aud pleasure expanded without enervating...

...In the course of the same essay Mr. Whipplc exposesthe fallacy of Shelley's assertion, that most men "Are cradled into poetry by wrong, And learn in suffering what they teach in song." "Writers who adopt this creed," he says, '•forget that such experience, passed through the dissolving...

...Germany, date from the period of the Thirty Years' War. ' Many men,' as a poet of our own has said, ' Are cradled into poetry by wrong, And learn in suffering, what they teach in song.' So was it here; and as this was a time full of suffering and wrath and wrong, so was it also a time...

...a crowd of facts The «istwhich go to justify the statement of Shelley, delicious that poets ' " " Are cradled into poetry by wrong, And learn in suffering what they teach in song. And people do not all at once see how to reconcile such a statement with that other of Shelley's, already...

...and too indulgent grandfather, in the grand family mausoleum. CHAPTER LVII. MATTIE AN AUTHOR. " Some are cradled into poetry by wrong, And learn in suffering what they teach in song." IT must have occurred to the reader of the last chapter that the poems so elaborately patronized by the...

...what is more, the sunlike radiation of cheer. Young writers who believe, with Shelley, that most men " Are cradled into poetry by wrong, And learn in suffering what they teach in song," but who forget that such experience, passed through the dissolving imagination of robust natures, comes...

...BUCOLICUM. oí irai /jiXSuc H'Xüitt ßüKoi-, "11(7 yuéaoi 5to. Tbeocritns Idyl, 29. Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, And learn in suffering, what they teack by eong. DRYDEN. MOPSÜS ANP MENALCAS. Menalcas invites Mopsus to sing and play. Mopsns complies,...

...can they trinmph if they do not strive ? One of our great English poets tells us that most men t " Are cradled into poetry by wrong, And learn in suffering what they teach iu song." And by no simpler method can we reach the highest spiritual power. It is an idle dream to...