 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 710 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - Moral education - 1842 - 338 pages
...mind with sacred awe ? Like the shadows that rested under primeval forests they have passed away. " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...chasms and wat'ry depths : — all these have vanish'd !" Vanished! — and we would not, if we could, recall them; — The soul which first peopled nature... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1842 - 716 pages
...so exquisitely expressed by a modern poet : For fable is Love's world, his home, his birth-place : Delightedly dwells he 'mong fays, and talismans, 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 depths — all these have... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...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...stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and wat'ry depths" ? Imagination fading, old and past is memory. " So that imagination " and memory arc but om thing."... | |
 | John D. Post - Readers - 1842 - 314 pages
...Than lies upon that truth, we live to learn. For fable is love's world, his home, his birth-place :r Delightedly dwells he 'mong fays and talismans, And...religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had her haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry... | |
 | George Trevor Spencer - Tamil Nadu (India) - 1842 - 286 pages
...— might have ascribed to it its nymphs and dryads, — The intelligible forms of ancient poetry, The fair humanities of old religion. The power, the...forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths. I have been a lover and seeker out of trees all my life, and never have I seen one more... | |
 | Sir George Bailey Sansom - History - 1958 - 532 pages
...feeling of loss is beautifully described in the well-known lines from Coleridge (adapting Schiller): The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...Or forest by slow stream or pebbly spring Or chasms or watery depths. All these have vanished, They live no longer in the faith of reason But still the... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...on the relevance of the imagination's instinctual thrust toward making natural forms intelligible: The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths: all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 420 pages
...himself. This is the theme of Coleridge's expanded translation of a passage in Schiller's Die Piccolomini: The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion . . . ... all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 596 pages
...expressed in the well-known lines of Coleridge, in "The Piccolomini," Act ii Scene 4. The intelligihle forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old...their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, hy slow stream, or pehhly spring. Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no... | |
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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 have... 
