 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pages
...has paid the original author and translator the following singular compliment : " How have I sate, while piped the pensive wind, To hear thy harp by British Fairfax strung ; Prevailing poet, whose undoubiing mind Believed the magic wonders that he sung." Ode on Highland Superititiont. ing my opinion... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...a philosopher, we cannot regret its influence on his poetry. Collins has thus celebrated Fairfax : Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind, Believed the magic wonders which he sung. Nor can there be a doubt, that, as every work of imagination is tinged with the author's passions and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 pages
...wild blast upheaved the vanished sword ! How have I sat, when piped the pt.isive wind, To hear his harp by British Fairfax strung ! Prevailing poet !...undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung. Hence, at each sound, imagination glows ! Hence, at each picture, vivid life starts here ! ' Hence... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...in the following excellent passage of the Life of Dryden. ' Collins has thus celebrated Fairfax : " Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung." ' Nor can there be a doubt, that, as every work of ima' gination is tinged with the author's passions... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 pages
...1600. Collins, in apostrophizing Tasso, does not forget his congenial translator : How have I sate while piped the pensive wind. To hear thy harp by...poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders lhat he sung. Ode on Scottish Superstitions. Fairfax also wrote the History of Edward the Black Prince,... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1821 - 204 pages
...wild blast upheaved the vanish'd sword ! How have I sat , when piped the pensive wind , To hear his harp by British Fairfax strung : Prevailing Poet !...undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung \ Hence at each sound Imagination glows : Hence at each picture vivid life starts here ! Hence his... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...1600. Collins, in apostrophizing Tasso, does not forget his congenial translator : How have I sate while piped the pensive wind. To hear thy harp by British Fairfax strung j Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders that he sung. Ode on Scottish Superstitions:... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 pages
...picture of past existence, fresh with sincerity, and fraught with authentic character, like the — " Prevailing Poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung." On these grounds, namely, that Poetry may be suspected to exhaust her own resources in presenting reiterated... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...a philosopher, we cannot regret its influence on his poetry. Collins has thus celebrated Fairfax : Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung. Nor can there be a doubt, that, as every work of imagination is tinged with the author's passions and... | |
 | 1821 - 612 pages
...us a picture of past existence fresh with sincerity, and fraught with authentic character, like the Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung." " It may be doubted if the enlightened imagination of man may always be expected to dwell with the... | |
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How have I sat, when piped the pensive wind, To hear his harp by British Fairfax strung ! Prevailing poet ! whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung... 
