 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 pages
...Johnson says (in 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 believe... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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." ' " A cloud of obscurity sometimes rests on his highest... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1845 - 528 pages
...told us, in that piece of prose music of his, that "beloved 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 waterfalls of Elysium." Collins has given Fairfax a high and proud eulogy in his... | |
 | Torquato Tasso, Edward Fairfax - 1845 - 550 pages
...us, iu that 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 on the magnificence of golden palaces, and to repose by the waterfalls of Elysium." Collins has given Fairfax a high and proud eulogy in his... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1845 - 530 pages
...us, in that 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 on the magnificence of golden palaces, and to repose by the waterfalls of Elysium." Collins has given Fairfax a high and proud eulogy in his... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 408 pages
...only by a 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...chiefly upon works of fiction and subjects of fancy. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; e thee from me like a serpent. Her. Why are you grown...rude ? what change is this, Sweet love ? Lys. Thy repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." I am equally incredulous on the subject of the origin... | |
 | William Motherwell - 1847 - 338 pages
...those materials in which his genius most delighted. " 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." — (Johnson.) His ode on " THE PASSIONS," shows how... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...chiefly upon works of fiction and subjects of fancy. He loved fairies, genii, gianU. i\nd monsters ; y promis'd to tell me of? Bass. 'Tis not unknown to...Antonio, How much I have disabled mine estate, By repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." I am equally incredulous on the subject of the origin... | |
 | William Collins - 1848 - 158 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. " 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. 
