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
| American literature - 1854 - 704 pages
...away through the fields, hat in hand, after some gay etymologic butterfly; or lonely wander mid— " The Intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...religion. The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That hare their haunts In dale or plney mountains, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms... | |
| Christian literature for children - 1854 - 778 pages
...very mitigated condemnation, not to eay approbation, of heathen religions. We have heard much of — " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...religion. The power, the beauty, and the majesty," — i as Coleridge, translating Wallenstein, expresses it ; and of " the beautiful mythology of Greece."... | |
| 1854 - 792 pages
...in hand, after some gay etymologic butterfly; or lonely wander mid — " The Intelligible form! or ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That hare their haunts In dale or plney mountains, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms... | |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1854 - 192 pages
...existence, under the form of defending the science of the stars: " For Fable is Love's world, his home, bis birth-place ; Delightedly dwells he 'mong fays, and talismans, And spirits ; and delightedly believe! Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets. The fair humanities... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 478 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...delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. 1 he intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty,... | |
| 1855 - 700 pages
...cannot see. To whom there still lives in the faith of feeling as well as in the faith of reason : " The Intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...religion, The power, the beauty and the majesty, That have thetr haunts in dale or piny mountains, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring; Or chasms... | |
| 1855 - 692 pages
...the faith of feeling as well as in the faith of reason : " The intelligible forms of ancient poett, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty and the majesty, That have their haunts in dale or piny mountains, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring; Or chasms... | |
| Henry George Liddell - Rome - 1855 - 534 pages
...were pointed out, disc See Coleridge's translation of Schiller's Wallenstein, act ii. sc. 4 : — " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, Ths power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...herself to pursuits of a more congenial sort ; and, led by love of the romantic and beautiful, among '•The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion," she attempted to depict the life of Athens in its most glorious age, when Pericles presided over the... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1857 - 450 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 birthplace...ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, q The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest... | |
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