 | Leigh Hunt - 1869 - 366 pages
...in that piece of prose music of his, that " he loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters," — that "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 has given Fairfax a high and proud eulogy in... | |
 | 1868 - 588 pages
...tastes were peculiar. " He loved," says Ms friend, Dr. Johnson, " 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 Elysiau gardens." He was emharrassed by penury in early life, which was... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1870 - 488 pages
...of such attributes, that, like Collins, " he loves fairies, genii, giants, and monsters — delights to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, and to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens." To this taste we owe the " wild and wondrous... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 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. — Johnson. Collins was an acceptable companion everywhere... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 pages
...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 waterfalls of Elysian gardens;' but never does he seem to have imagined how natural it... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1876 - 300 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." And his who sleeps at Dunmailraise.—Page 14. Dunmailraise... | |
 | John Diprose - 1878 - 336 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 Elysian gardens." But never doea he seem to have imagined how natural it... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1880 - 456 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, lo repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." VI11. Of golden battlements to view the gleam, And... | |
 | William Motherwell, James M'conechy - 1881 - 400 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 familiar... | |
 | William Motherwell - 1885 - 324 pages
...most delighted. " He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through tlie meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysiau gardens " — (JohnRon. J His ode on The Passions shows how familiar... | |
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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. 
