He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens. The Quarterly Review - Page 54edited by - 1811Full view - About this book
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1836 - 328 pages
...passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elynan gardeus." BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN. CANTO FIRST. I. WHERE is the Muidcn... | |
| Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - 1838 - 496 pages
...to which the mind popular traditions. He loved fairies, fccnii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the watertails of elysian gardens." 2. the baron of Triermain.— P. 348. Triermain was... | |
| 1839 - 876 pages
...passive acquiescence in popular tradition. He loved fairies and genii, giants and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens. This waj, however, the character rather of his inclination... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 pages
...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...and to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens. In this species of composition, the marvellous is itself the principal and most important object both... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of F.lysian gardens." NOTE B. Thf Baron of Tricrtnain—P. 377Trier-main... | |
| Moses Aaron Richardson - 1844 - 436 pages
...Johnson, in his life of Collins, and say, " He loved fairies, genii, giants and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls 01 Elysian gardens." The youth of Lewis was spent in Germany listening... | |
| 1844 - 858 pages
...Johnson, in his life of Collins, and say, " He loved fairies, genii, giants and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls 01 Elysian gardens." The youth of Lewis was spent in Germany listening... | |
| William Collins - 1844 - 328 pages
...passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighied to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose hy the waterfalls of Elysian gardens. • This was, however, the character rather of his... | |
| William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose hy the waterfalls of Elysian gardens. 'This was, however, the character rather of his inclination... | |
| Torquato Tasso, Edward Fairfax - 1845 - 550 pages
...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...golden palaces, and to repose by the waterfalls of Elysium." Collins has given Fairfax a high and proud eulogy in his ode on the Popular Superstitions... | |
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