 WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after...  The Poems of Ossian - Page cxcv1807Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Bailey - 1855 - 278 pages
...imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His powerful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast." I scarcely need say that general language has degrees of generality, and that the more particular it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain ; His powerful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast. Then Jonson came, instructed from the school, To please in method, and invent by rule ; 10 His studious... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - Dublin (Ireland) - 1859 - 392 pages
...the rainbow, emblematical of the variety of Shakspeare's productions, as described by Johnson : — " Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new." The Parcae, or Fates — Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos — were supported by clouds on the left ; opposite,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Authors - 1859 - 268 pages
...midst of it," replied Fox. It is intermixed with the shrubs and flawers, and plays its part among them. Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toil'd after him in vain," &c. I hardly... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...When learning's triumph o'er his barb'rous foei First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new ; Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toil'd after him in vain, His powerful... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...When Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare .rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His powerful... | |
 | John T. Watson - Quotations - 1869 - 524 pages
...fantastical and light, With fluttering wings do keep her still awake. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new ; Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toil'd after him in vain. DR. JOHNSON,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...1747. WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting time toil'd after him in vain. His powerful... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...interpreted, the transcendent genius ,of the author whom he had so eloquently pictured in verse :— " Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new; Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him hi vain." After an interval... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...166. This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd. Line 176. Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds and then imagin'd new. Prologue on the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre. And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. Ibid. For... | |
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