The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have... Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Page 49by Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 pagesFull view - About this book
| FRANCIS L. HAWKS, D.D., LL.D. - 1850
...fleet horses of the goddess. Yes, like fair Greece, bright Egypt had its beautiful mythology, but " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunt in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, All these have vanished... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...the instrument and the medium, is the spiritual. PRIMEVAL WISDOM; OR, TRIADS, MYTHS, AND SYMBOLS. " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...Beauty, and the Majesty, That had their haunts in dale, aud piney mountain, And forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring." COLERIDGE'S Translation of Schiller's... | |
| 1858 - 862 pages
...share this earth as with their friend," • its grandis Schiller says, rendered by Coleridge, — " The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunt by dale or piny mountain," have all departed, while mystery, the poet's ancient indisputable... | |
| Andrews Norton - Religious education - 1818 - 1164 pages
...animated, and ruled by God's all powerful and omniscient goodness. To them it was a world of matter. " The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the...the Majesty That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths," never existed except... | |
| Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...living poet assert their poetic existence, under the form of defending the science of the stars : " For Fable is Love's world, his home, his birth-place...the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ! all these have... | |
| Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...living poet assert their poetic existence, under the form of defending the science .of the stars: " For Fable is Love's world, his home, his birth-place...the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ! all these have... | |
| 1821 - 504 pages
...living poet assert their poetic existence, under the form of defending the science of the stars : " For Fable is Love's world, his home, his birth-place...the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ! all these have... | |
| 1822 - 734 pages
...inform us how the night is preserved from darkness. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fail humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty,...the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest, by alow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these hare... | |
| Scotland - 1823 - 858 pages
...birth-place : Delightedly dwells Tie 'mong fays and talismans, And spiritt ; and delightedly believe! Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible...the Majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and •watry depths; all these have... | |
| England - 1823 - 772 pages
...and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible form» of ancient poeti, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty, That had their haunti t« dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wafry... | |
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