...uncultured, and of genius unrevealed : " Oh many are the poets that are sown By nature ; men endowed with highest gifts The vision and the faculty divine...season of their youth It was denied them to acquire, thro' lack . . Of culture and the inspiring aid of books, Or haply by a temper too severe , , . Qr...

...willing to exclaim with Mr Wordsworth, — "Oh! many are the poets that are sown By nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine, Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse !" The want of the accomplishment of verse imposes a necessity on us of writing in prose — but it...

...[from The Excursion.] UNDEVELOPED GEA'IUS. OH, many are the poets that are sown By Nature! men endowed with highest gifts — The vision, and the faculty...of shame), Nor, having e'er as life advanced, been Ted By circumstance to take unto the height The measure of themselves, these favored beings, All but...

...prose works. He was one of those poets mentioned by Wordsworth, " That are sown By nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine, Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse." His writings, in short, like those of all great minds, are a reflection of his own character, and are...

...days I learn'd To weigh with care his words, and to rejoice In the plain presence of his dignity ! O ! many are the poets that are sown By nature ; men endow'd...denied them to acquire, through lack Of culture and th' inspiring aid of hooks, Or haply by a temper too severe, Or a nice hackwardness afraid of shame,)...

...I learn 'd To weigh with care his words, and to rejoice In the plain presence of his dignity ! O ! e the mind ; And lound himself, with such advisers,...died : He then assented to a last request, And hy tbrough lack Of culture and th' inspiring aid of hooks, Or haply hy a temper too severe, Or a nice...

...In the plain presence of his dignity ! О ! many are the poets that are sown By nature; men endow 'd with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine...denied them to acquire, through lack Of culture and th* inspiring aid of books, Or haply by a temper too severe, Or a nice backwardness afraid of shame,)...

...and cheer, and not merely to dazzle. This it is tbe office of language to do. There are "men endowed with highest gifts, the vision and the faculty divine," yet wanting the accomplishment of words — men " who live out their time," "and go to the grave unthoughtof." "To give solidity and...

...well-known passage, has exclaimed :— " Oh 1 many are the poets that are sown By Nature; men endowed with highest gifts, The Vision and the faculty divine....aid of books. Or haply by a temper too severe, Or t nice backwardness afraid of shame), Nor having e'er, as life advanced, been led By circumstance to...

...language. Mr. Wordsworth truly says — Oh ' many are the poets that are sown By nature ; men endowed with highest gifts. The vision and the faculty divine, Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. And another great poet of our time says, that even he could not express all the poetry that lived within...