| Friedrich Schiller - 1800 - 236 pages
...he 'mong fays and talifmans, And fpirits; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himfelf divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majefty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or foreft by flow ftream, or pebbly fpring,... | |
| FRANCIS L. HAWKS, D.D., LL.D. - 1850
...the fleet horses of the goddess. Yes, like fair Greece, bright Egypt had its beautiful mythology, but “The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...mountain, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, All these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.” SCHILLER'S Wallenstein. The... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 628 pages
...preface to the second edition of his translatløii of' Yanst,' quotes one of these striking passages :-. ‘The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale, or piny m.untiin, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or total impression left... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1894 - 598 pages
...most ancient forms. Still and always it clings to the gods of its infancy— ' That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths.' Hardly a generation has passed, since Kennedy gathered at the fireside in... | |
| Walter Scott - Astrologers - 1815 - 360 pages
...he 'mong fays and talismans, And spirits, and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountains, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry... | |
| Walter Scott - Scotland - 1815 - 416 pages
...he 'mong fays and talismans, And spirits, and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountains, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry... | |
| Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 pages
...delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of uiK'sent poets, The fait .humanities of old religion, The power, the. beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountains, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry... | |
| Walter Scott - English fiction - 1817 - 366 pages
...'naong fays and talismans, And spirits, and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountains, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry... | |
| Andrews Norton - Religious education - 1818 - 1164 pages
...animated, and ruled by God's all powerful and omniscient goodness. To them it was a world of matter. " 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 pehbly spring, Or chasms and watery... | |
| Walter Scott - Scotland - 1820 - 314 pages
...'truing fays and talismans, And spirits, and delightfully believes Divinities, being himself divine. 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 mountains, Or forest,... | |
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