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" 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. "
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An Introduction to English Literature

Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1907 - 718 pages
...contemplation. Collins was attracted by mystery and splendour. Collins, writes Dr. Johnson, "delighted to roam through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." ' 1 Life of "Collins" in Lives o/ the Poet*. It is...
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Poetical Works

Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 pages
...passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens.' NOTB II. The Baron of Trurrnain.-V. 555. Triermain...
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Books and Reading

1908 - 408 pages
...that strain of music, inspired by tenderness), "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." If Collins had had a better constitution, I do not...
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English Poems: The restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1800)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...Muse."—The Monthly Review, January, 1764. "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...
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The Treatment of Nature in English Poetry Between Pope and Wordsworth

Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 312 pages
...any land. Dr. Johnson says of him : " 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." Collins was a town-bred poet and could have known...
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Naturalism in English Poetry

Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1920 - 314 pages
...imagination which pass the bounds of Nature. 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 more the character of his inclination than...
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Works, Volume 25

Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 1122 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.' NOTE 2, p. 16 Triermain was a fief of the Barony of...
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Romantic Prose of the Early Nineteenth Century

Carl Henry Grabo - 1927 - 544 pages
...that strain of music, inspired by tenderness), '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.' If Collins had had a better constitution, I do not...
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Gothic Readings: The First Wave, 1764-1840

Rictor Norton - 2005 - 788 pages
...passive acquiescence in popular tradition. 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. Milton, too, in early life, lived in a similar dream-land,...
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Selections in Prose and Verse

196 pages
...that strain of music, inspired by tenderness,) " 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." If Collins had had a better constitution, I do not...
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