 For fable is Love's world, his home, his birthplace : Delightedly dwells he 'mong fays and talismans, And spirits ; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion...  Guy Mannering or the astrologer - Page 19by Walter Scott - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...deeper import Lurks in the legend told my infant years Than lies upon that truth, we live lo learn. For fable is Love's world, his home, his birth-place...himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, Tbe fair humanities of old religion. The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty, That had her haunts in... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...deeper import Lurks in the legend told my infant years Than lies upon that truth, we live to learn. For fable is Love's world, his home, his birth-place...And spirits ; and delightedly believes Divinities, himself being divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion,... | |
 | Theology - 1838 - 428 pages
...shapes of beauty or terror, tell us now but of one creative spirit in whom we recognise our Father. " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The powers, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...preface to the Mcond edition of his translation of ' Faust,' quotes one of these striking passage*:— ' The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, Th« power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts iu dale, or piny mountain, Or forest... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...demonstration of the etherial spirit world; from the Prometheus of ^Eschylus down to Jack o'Lantern. The intelligible forms of ancient poets— The fair humanities of old religion ; All these have vanished; yet they reappear, For still the heart doth need a language—still Doth... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 290 pages
...nor wise men, when nobody cares for them." 3 And thus, in the beautiful language of Coleridge,— " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, 1 Shaw's History of Moray, p. 306. Edinburgh, 1775. The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty, That had... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 286 pages
...nor wise men, when nobody cares for them."2 And thus, in the beautiful language of Coleridge, — " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, 1 Shaw's History of Moray, p. 306. Edinburgh, 1775. 8 Seldeniana, p. 94, edit. Loud. 1821. The Power,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 370 pages
...it dwells 'mong fays, and talismans, And spirits ; and delightedly believes Divinities, being itself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The...religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty. It follows not, therefore, that the religious poet has most strongly within him the governing source... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 710 pages
...and delightedly believee Divinitie*. being himself divine. The intelligible form« of ancient poetfl, The fair humanities of old religion. The power, the beauty, and the mnjegty, 'I'll.-'! had their haurtt* in dale, or piny mountain!, Or forest, by »low stream or ttebbly... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1842 - 412 pages
...of the stars: " For Fable is Love's world, his home, his birth place ; Delightedly dwells he 'rnong fays and talismans, And spirits; and delightedly believes...religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That bad their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms and... | |
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