 | William Motherwell, James M'Conechy - 1849 - 516 pagina’s
...fairies, genii, pants, 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 ' Til K PASSIONS ' shows how familiar his mind was with those terrible... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 pagina’s
...fairies, genii, giants, and monsters j 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. caused harshness and obscurity, they likewise produced in happier moments sublimity and splendor. This... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pagina’s
...velvet lining ; " the dead have " crested palls." He delighted, as Johnson says of Collins, " to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." His scenery is everywhere magnificent. His Genius is always waited upon with the splendour of an Oriental... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 pagina’s
...fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meadows of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elystan gardens." It is chiefly the young and the indolent who lore to be soothed by works of this... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 pagina’s
...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 than his genius ; the grandeur of wildness,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pagina’s
...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 than his genius ; the grandeur of wildness... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 354 pagina’s
...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 Elsyian gardens." While men saw him gazing, with lacklustre eye, at the streets, parks, river, and... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 pagina’s
...of poets, who, as Dr. Johnson says, " delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens." Wordsworth composed a poem upon the Thames near Richmond in remembrance of Collins. Here is a stanza... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 380 pagina’s
...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." For Lucy loves to tread enchanted strand, And thread, like him, the maze of Fairy land ; Of golden... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 pagina’s
...rove CHAP. LXIII.J MY BOOKS. 141 through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnifi cence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of...If Collins had had a better constitution, I do not be lieve that he would have written his projected work upon the Restoration of Literature, fit as he... | |
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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 water-falls of Elysian gardens. 
