 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 366 Seiten
...scheme. " The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geninses, calling them by tho names and adorning them with the properties of woods,...could perceive. " And, particularly, they studied the genins of each city and country, placing it under its mental deity. " Till a system was formed, which... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1890 - 334 Seiten
...closed by your senses five ? One thought fills immensity. What is now proved was once only imagined. The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with...their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive. As I read, there happened to me something like that which happened to Petrarch upon the summit of Mont... | |
 | Century Guild of Artists (London, England) - 1887 - 218 Seiten
...is barren. Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believ'd. Enough ! or Too much. The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with...lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could percieve. And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country,... | |
 | Mona Wilson - 1927 - 476 Seiten
...process FRONTISPIECE OF AHANIA takes place which had been described in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with...lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could percieve. And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country,... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 Seiten
...murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. Where man is not, nature is barren. Plate II The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with...lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could pcrcieve. And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country,... | |
 | Owen Barfield - 1973 - 244 Seiten
...their language was daring, and figurative." William Blake, a few years earlier, testifies in a similar way: "The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects...their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive." One of his examples is Isaiah, who is made to say, about the divine vision, "I saw no God, nor heard... | |
 | Dan Miller, Mark Bracher, Donald D. Ault - 1987 - 410 Seiten
...argument to narrative and suggest some of the paths that fuller analysis of Blake's prophecies could take: The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with...lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could percieve. And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country.... | |
 | Frederic Stewart Colwell - 1989 - 246 Seiten
...its subservience to the forms which supplant it, a universal history threatening every son of Adam: "The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with...lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive." That brightness and its bright creatures having been forfeit or... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt - 1992 - 414 Seiten
...subject already explored in previous essays. William Blake in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell told how the "ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with...woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations." But he went on to denounce the vapidity of such rhetorical tropes.1" His was but one variation on a... | |
 | Terence Allan Hoagwood - 1993 - 204 Seiten
...the process of parable) as Byron's play does (his "Mystery" deconstructing the process of Mystery): The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with...lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive [in the case of the fable rehearsed in Cain, the sensible object =... | |
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And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country, placing it under its mental deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of & enslav'd the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects;... 
