 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 have...  Poetry of the Age of Fable - Page vi1863 - 251 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Trevor Spencer - Tamil Nadu (India) - 1842 - 286 pages
...— might have ascribed to it its nymphs and dryads, — The intelligible forms of ancient poetry, The fair humanities of old religion. The power, the...stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths. I have been a lover and seeker out of trees all my life, and never have I seen one more majestic. This... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1842 - 642 pages
...lullabies, vanish utterly, or remain as monuments in history of the progress, or decline of mankind. " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow strsam, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished." Why has not this belief,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1842 - 350 pages
...dark Tree ! How can I mourn, 'midst things like these, For the stormy past, with thee? THE STREAMS. "The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had...or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all those have vanish'd! They live no longer in the faith of heaven, But still the heart doth need a language... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 352 pages
...dark Tree! How can I mourn, 'midst things like these, For the stormy past, with thee? THE STREAMS. "The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had...or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all those have vanish'd! They live no longer in the faith of heaven, But still the heart doth need a language!"... | |
 | Calvin Pease - Lectures and lecturing - 1842 - 56 pages
...alone gives it an interest and value for the soul, and unites it with the heart, bringing back to us, " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...religion, The Power, the Beauty and the Majesty, That had her haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by low stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms or wat'ry... | |
 | Sir George Bailey Sansom - History - 1958 - 532 pages
...feeling of loss is beautifully described in the well-known lines from Coleridge (adapting Schiller): The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...Or forest by slow stream or pebbly spring Or chasms or watery depths. All these have vanished, They live no longer in the faith of reason But still the... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...on the relevance of the imagination's instinctual thrust toward making natural forms intelligible: The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...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! But still the heart... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 420 pages
...himself. This is the theme of Coleridge's expanded translation of a passage in Schiller's Die Piccolomini: The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion . . . ... all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 596 pages
...expressed in the well-known lines of Coleridge, in "The Piccolomini," Act ii Scene 4. The intelligihle forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old...their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, hy slow stream, or pehhly spring. Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no... | |
 | Alexander Norman Jeffares - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 396 pages
...PiccoIomini, translated by Coleridge, which can serve as a foundation for Yeats's own use of myth: The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...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! But still the heart... | |
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