 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters j he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment,...palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens. caused harshness and obscurity, they likewise produced in happier moments sublimity and splendor. This... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...violet velvet lining ; " the dead have " crested palls." He delighted, as Johnson says of Collins, " to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." His scenery is everywhere magnificent. His Genius is always waited upon with the splendour of an Oriental... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1887 - 432 pages
...traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meadows of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden...palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." It is chiefly the young and the indolent who love to be soothed by works of this character, which require... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 pages
...loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of inchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens. " This was however the character rather of his inclination than his genius ; the grandeur of wildness,... | |
 | William Minto - English literature - 1894 - 438 pages
...fantastic imagination, with not a little of the temperament of Shelley, delighting, as Johnson puts it, " to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze...palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." Two years before he went up to London he had published a volume of poems, " Persian Eclogues," Persian... | |
 | William Minto - English literature - 1894 - 440 pages
...fantastic imagination, with not a little of the temperament of Shelley, delighting, as Johnson puts it, " to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze...palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." Two years before he went up to London he had published a volume of poems, " Persian Eclogues," Persian... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - English poetry - 1896 - 312 pages
...his own country, and in the legendary lore and superstitions of any land. Dr. Johnson says of him : " He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he...of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Klysian gardens." Collins was a town-bred poet and could have known little of the country at first... | |
 | William Collins - 1898 - 234 pages
...subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds...palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." — Lives of the Poets, London, 1820, vol. XI, p. 268. form and new subject-matter is patent. The artificial... | |
 | William Collins - Poetry - 1898 - 234 pages
...subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds...palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." — Lives of the Poets, London, 1820, vol. XI, p. 268. form and new subject-matter is patent. The artificial... | |
 | William Collins - Poetry - 1898 - 236 pages
...subjects of fancy ; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds...palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." — Lives of the Poets, London, 1820, vol. XI, p. 268. form and new subject-matter is patent. The artificial... | |
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He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled... 
