 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 wat'ry depths ; all these...  Guy Mannering - Page 27by Sir Walter Scott - 1923Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1815 - 322 pages
...religion. The powtr, the beauty, and the majesty, That hadthtlr haunts in dale, or piny mountains,, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanish' J, They live no longer,in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 pages
...religion, The power, the. beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountains, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanish'Jr They live no longer in the faith of reason'! ' But still the heart doth need a language,... | |
 | England - 1823 - 782 pages
...humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beaut;/, and the Majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or finy mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ,• all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason ! Bat still the heart doth need a language, still... | |
 | 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...forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths," never existed except in the imagination of modern poets. The beings intended were "the... | |
 | 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...forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ! all these have vanish'd, They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the... | |
 | 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...forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ! all these have vanish'd, They live no longer in the faith of reason ! , But still the... | |
 | 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...forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ! all these have vanish'd, They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the... | |
 | 1821 - 502 pages
...forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, t 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 vanish'd, They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 246 pages
...religion, The power, the beauty, and tne majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountains, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and .wat'ry depths; all these have vanish'd, They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1894 - 602 pages
...divinities under the most ancient forms. Still and always it clings to the gods of its infancy — ' That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or...forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths.' Hardly a generation has passed, since Kennedy gathered at the fireside in Wexford cabins,... | |
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