 | British poets - 1822 - 270 pages
...only by a 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 in-' clioation... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 336 pages
...only by a 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." The Baron of Triermain — P. 183. 1. 2. Triermain was... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...only by a 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." To this we may add the opinion of Dr. Langhorne :... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 pages
...only by a 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. ' In the Poetical Calendar, a collection of poems by Fawkes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...only by a 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. r In the Poetical Calendar, a collection of poems by Fawkes... | |
 | 1826 - 372 pages
...the most exciting of the whole. He tells us how he " loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters;" how 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 ;" but never does he seem to have imagined how natural... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 320 pages
...told us, in that piece of prose music of his, that " he loved fairies, genii, and monsters,"^—that " he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, and to repose by the water-falls of Elysium." Collins has given Fairfax a high and proud eulogy, in... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 320 pages
...us, in that piece of prose music of his, that " he loved fairies, genii, and monsters," — that " he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, and to repose by the water-falls of Elysium." Collins has given Fairfax a high and proud eulogy, in... | |
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 pages
...only by a 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 - 1827 - 234 pages
...only by a 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... | |
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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. 
