 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
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...my infant years, Than lies upon that truth we live to learn. For fable is Love's world, his house, his birthplace ; Delightedly dwells he 'mong fays,...talismans, And spirits ; and delightedly believes Divimties; being himself divine. The intelligible forms of anclent poets, The fair humanities of old... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 826 pages
...to learn. For fable is Love's world, his house, his birthplace ; Delightedly dwells he 'mong fay**, and talismans, And spirits; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelliaible form* of ancient poetM, The fair humanities of old religion. The imwer, the. bcavttf.... | |
 | S. E. Thomas - Celebrities - 1881 - 504 pages
...eye. Tadema's mind is so imbued with the antique spirit that his brush on the canvas realizes for us "The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion ; " and the glories of Athens and of Rome : their fair edifices, most like houses of the gods — "... | |
 | Frank Stockton Dobbins, Samuel Wells Williams, Isaac Hollister Hall - Idolatry - 1883 - 830 pages
...and who is recognized as the ruler of all. 46 . =! . CHAPTER II. WHENCE CAME THE MANY CODS AND IDOLS? The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty and the majesty. They had their haunts in dales or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms... | |
 | John Page Hopps - Future life - 1884 - 166 pages
...and as old as it is new, when he asked : — " Where are now the fabled beings that peopled space ? The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1884 - 894 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 dwells he among fays and talismans, And spirits ; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine The... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 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...divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forma of ancient poets, the fair humanities of old religion, the power, the beauty, and the majesty,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...talismans, . birthplace; 10 The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny s of this realm—the triple cord which no man can...break; the solemn, sworn, constitutional frankpledge 15 mountain. Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have... | |
 | English periodicals - 1885 - 906 pages
...independent genius, than a mere transcript — some of the very finest passages, such as that beginning, " The fair humanities of old religion, the power, the beauty, and the majesty," having no place in Schiller's play. The very best copy of a great master — a Titian or a Velasquez... | |
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