 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, Or, The Astrologer - Page 49by Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Swinton - English language - 1864 - 312 pages
...troublesome to work. To be sure Science is a terrible destroyer of these fine phantasies. But, " Slill the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names.' " There shall be no more magic nor cabala, Nor Rosicrucian, uor Alchemic lore, Nor fairy fantasies... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1864 - 358 pages
...Or chasms and watery depths ! all these have vanish'd ; They live no longer in the faith of reason I But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring hsck the old names ; And to yon itarry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1865 - 402 pages
...—all these hare vanished : They live DO longer in the faith of reason." He adds, however, — " Bat still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names. And the philologist (not necessarily the dry creature he i« so commonly supposed to bej, who converses... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - Botany - 1866 - 290 pages
...Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths,—all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason; But still...still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names." Returning into Cheshire by the bridge, it is easy to find the way over Werneth-Lowe to Hyde or Woodley.... | |
 | Orton Lowe - Children - 1914 - 374 pages
...reason ; But still the heart doth need a language; still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, Spirits or gods that used to share this earth With man as with their friend ; and at this day 'Tis Jupiter who brings whate'er is great And Venus who brings every thing that's fair.'... | |
 | Robert Bridges - English literature - 1916 - 368 pages
...majesty That had their haunts in dale or i.iny mountain Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring IO9 They live no longer in the faith of reason : But still...to share this earth With man as with their friend. . . . . I have been still led like a child My heedless wayward path and wild Thro' this rough world... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 pages
...religions they invented — the gods they worshiped and adored, " All these have vanished. " They jive no longer in the faith of reason; " But still the...still " Doth the old instinct bring back the old names — " Spirits or gods — that used to share this earth " With man as with their friend." " The sleeping... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1922 - 364 pages
...may protest. " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, ******* They live no longer in the faith of reason, But still...they now are gone, Spirits or gods that used to share the earth With man as with their friend." — SCHII.LKR'S Wiillenstein, Coleridge's Translation. known... | |
 | Morris Owen Evans - Religion - 1922 - 260 pages
...spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths: all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason. And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits...to share this earth With man as with their friend." 4 But "this visible nature," we protest, "and this common world, is all too narrow," and even though... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - English poetry - 1923 - 162 pages
...Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason ; But still...to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or goda, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend ; and to the lover Yonder they move,... | |
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