 | John Bell - 1791 - 546 Seiten
...and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He 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 waterfalls of Elysian... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 972 Seiten
...only by a paflive acquiefcence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monfters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment,...to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repofe by the water-falls of Elyfian gardens. " This was, however, the character rather of his inclination... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 Seiten
...and to which the min 1 is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He 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 Elysiari... | |
 | 1803 - 926 Seiten
...horror, and exalt hij woe. * "HE loved,'* lays Dr Johnfon, " fairies, genii, giants, and monfters : he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment,—...gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, — to repofe by the waterfalls of Ely fian gai dens." MANY inftances indeed might be adduced to exemplify... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 Seiten
...and to which the mind is reconciled onlv by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He ioved fairies, genii, giants and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of inchantmenr, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 Seiten
...and to which the mind is reconciled only hy a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchanhaent, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to rrj**& hy the water-falls of Elysian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 Seiten
...and jto which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 Seiten
...and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 568 Seiten
...consequence of such attributes, that, like Collins, ' he loves fairies, genii, giants and monsters ; delights to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, and to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens." To this taste we owe the ' wild and wondrous... | |
 | 1813 - 1082 Seiten
...by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He lov"ed fairies and genii, giants and mensters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the mag. nificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens. Perhaps the preceding... | |
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... 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 only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved... 
