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 watery depths ; all these... Essays and Poems - Page 24by Jones Very - 1839 - 175 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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...forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and wat'ry depths" ? Imagination fading, old and past is memory. " So that imagination " and memory... | |
| Robert Cassie Waterston - 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...forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths : — all these have vanish'd !" Vanished! — and we would not, if we could, recall... | |
| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pages
...lullabies, vanish utterly, or remain as monuments in history of the progress, or decline of mankind. " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow strsam, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished." Why has not this belief,... | |
| George Trevor Spencer - 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... | |
| Sir George Bailey Sansom - 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...pebbly spring Or chasms or watery depths. All these have vanished, They live no longer in the faith of reason But still the heart doth need a language.... | |
| Harold Bloom - 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...forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths: all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the... | |
| Meyer Howard Abrams - 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 - 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... | |
| Frederic Stewart Colwell - 1989 - 246 pages
...he 'mong fays and talismans, And spirits; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair...forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the... | |
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