 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 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 enchantment, to gafee on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens. * In... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 Seiten
...which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He Jovei ¡HÜ' , genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gate on tliR magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysiau gardens.» Rote... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Watterston - 1836 - 172 Seiten
...commission and remove to Baltimore, where he employs himself more profitably in private practice. 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."* Mr. Wirt does not seem to search for imagery,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 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 enclmntrnrnt, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 Seiten
...and to whicli 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 enchantment, to ga/.e on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waltrfalls of elysian gardens. "This... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1841 - 378 Seiten
...himself: he had not health and spirits for the literary voluptuousness he desired. Collins, for the same reason, could not employ himself; he was obliged to...tenderness,) "fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; ln> delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 Seiten
...imagination of those who, like the poet Collins, love to riot in the luxuriance of Oriental fiction, to rove through the meanders of enchantment; to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, and to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens. In this species of composition, the marvellous... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1845 - 528 Seiten
...told us, in that piece of prose music of his, that "beloved fairies, genii, and monsters," — that "he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, and to repose by the waterfalls of Elysium." Collins has given Fairfax a high and proud eulogy in his... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1845 - 530 Seiten
...us, in that piece of prose music of his, that " he loved fairies, genii, and monsters," — that " ho delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, and to repose by the waterfalls of Elysium." Collins has given Fairfax a high and proud eulogy in his... | |
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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... 
