 | English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...we love to revel in the images of the past ? to call up and linger amongst " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion,...stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and wat'ry depths" ? Imagination fading, old and past is memory. " So that imagination " and memory arc but om thing."... | |
 | George Trevor Spencer - Tamil Nadu (India) - 1842 - 286 pages
...— might have ascribed to it its nymphs and dryads, — The intelligible forms of ancient poetry, The fair humanities of old religion. The power, the...forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths. I have been a lover and seeker out of trees all my life, and never have I seen one more... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1842 - 642 pages
...or remain as monuments in history of the progress, or decline of mankind. " The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion,...haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow strsam, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished." Why has not this belief,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1842 - 350 pages
...dark Tree ! How can I mourn, 'midst things like these, For the stormy past, with thee? THE STREAMS. "The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had...forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all those have vanish'd! They live no longer in the faith of heaven, But still the heart... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 352 pages
...dark Tree! How can I mourn, 'midst things like these, For the stormy past, with thee? THE STREAMS. "The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had...forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all those have vanish'd! They live no longer in the faith of heaven, But still the heart... | |
 | Robert Bridges - English literature - 1927 - 348 pages
...talismans, And spirits ; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion,...mountain Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring 109 no They live no longer in the faith of reason : But still the heart doth need a language, still... | |
 | George Rylands - Diction - 1928 - 268 pages
...out of harmony with the porphyry font and the elaborate, somewhat theatrical, setting of the poem. The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the...forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms, or watery depths; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason, But still the... | |
 | William Paton Ker - English poetry - 1928 - 412 pages
...chapter 3— may be used, if not as justification, at any rate as commentary : The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion,...the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountains, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths — all these have... | |
 | Montana Historical Society - 1907 - 704 pages
...destinies of humanity in the hands of supernatural wisdom, strength and beauty. "The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion...the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts by dale or piney mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring ! These live no longer in the... | |
 | Sir George Bailey Sansom - History - 1958 - 532 pages
...beautifully described in the well-known lines from Coleridge (adapting Schiller): The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion,...Or forest by slow stream or pebbly spring Or chasms or watery depths. All these have vanished, They live no longer in the faith of reason But still the... | |
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The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these... 
