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
| William Motherwell, James M'Conechy - 1849 - 516 pages
...rials in which his genius most delighted. ' He loved fairies, genii, pants, 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 ' — (Johnson). His ode on ' Til K PASSIONS ' shows... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 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... | |
| Edward Holmes - 1854 - 400 pages
...enchanted ground, and that, with the taste of a poet, he " loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, and to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens," there is no doubt; but still his pleasure in the music of this opera was a divided pleasure. He could... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 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 Elysian gardens. " This was, however, the character rather of his inclination... | |
| William Collins - 1854 - 430 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 water-falls of Elysian gardens. " This was, however, the character rather of his inclination... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 354 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 Elsyian gardens." While men saw him gazing, with lacklustre eye, at... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 pages
...favorite haunt of Collins, one of the most poetical of poets, who, as Dr. Johnson says, " delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." Wordsworth composed a poem upon the Thames near Richmond... | |
| Walter Scott - 1857 - 380 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 Elysian gardens." For Lucy loves to tread enchanted strand, And thread,... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1860 - 82 pages
...civilization.'' XÜ ter than the poet Collins) "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 tbe waterfalls of elysian gardens." The following anecdotes of the preparation of the... | |
| Books - 1868 - 220 pages
...He tells us how Collins " loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; " how he " delighted to roam through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Blysian gardens." But never does he seem to have imagined how natural... | |
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