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 watery depths ; all these... Evergreen - Page 1131844Full view - About this book
| Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 lehte
...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 - 1840 - 286 lehte
...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,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 376 lehte
...'monfj favs. ;md talismans, And ipirili, aud delighted!}- beiievei Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountains, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths — all these have... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1841 - 348 lehte
...íolkMÍs^dl^S^ssáía «»«vr • - v; t \r«*Ч¥ Г'йЛ/ -'- '.-.' ".••¿*! '•••Л *-п-- THE STREAMS. " The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slew stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all those have vanish'd ! They live no... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 370 lehte
...'mong fays, and talismans, And spirits ; and delightedly believes Divinities, being itself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...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 lehte
...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... | |
| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 lehte
...lullabies, vanish utterly, or remain as monuments in history of the progress, or decline of mankind. " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...their 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... | |
| Robert Cassie Waterston - 1842 - 338 lehte
...mind with sacred awe ? Like the shadows that rested under primeval forests they have passed away. " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths : — all these have vanish'd !" Vanished!... | |
| 1842 - 416 lehte
...false ; for how is it that we love to revel in the images of the past ? to call up and linger amongst " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and wat'ry depths" ? Imagination fading, old and past is... | |
| George Trevor Spencer - 1842 - 286 lehte
...— might have ascribed to it its nymphs and dryads, — The intelligible forms of ancient poetry, The fair humanities of old religion. The power, the...their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths. I have been a lover and seeker out of trees... | |
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