The Poetical Works of Mr. William CollinsT. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802 - 124 oldal |
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xxiii. oldal
... magic cestus of poetic powers , can only be worn by him whom Nature has cast in the mould of true genius . So far is apt and intelligible ; but the Poet afterwards , actuated , as it should seem , by a vague desire of exalting his ...
... magic cestus of poetic powers , can only be worn by him whom Nature has cast in the mould of true genius . So far is apt and intelligible ; but the Poet afterwards , actuated , as it should seem , by a vague desire of exalting his ...
xxiv. oldal
... magic web , the cestus , was woven : and who , after this account , he adds , will now dare to assert his claim to it ? It is difficult to reduce to any thing like a mean- ing this strange and by no means reverential fiction concerning ...
... magic web , the cestus , was woven : and who , after this account , he adds , will now dare to assert his claim to it ? It is difficult to reduce to any thing like a mean- ing this strange and by no means reverential fiction concerning ...
xxx. oldal
... magic of numbers is such that the passage cannot be read without pleasure , and the allusion to the custom the Spartans had of arranging their hair before a battle , is just and happy . Beautiful as is this Ode , the philosophic reader ...
... magic of numbers is such that the passage cannot be read without pleasure , and the allusion to the custom the Spartans had of arranging their hair before a battle , is just and happy . Beautiful as is this Ode , the philosophic reader ...
29. oldal
... magic name , By all the griefs his thought could frame , Receive my humble rite : Long , Pity , let the nations view Thy sky - worn robes of tenderest blue , And eyes of dewy light ! But wherefore need I wander wide To old lissus ' ODE ...
... magic name , By all the griefs his thought could frame , Receive my humble rite : Long , Pity , let the nations view Thy sky - worn robes of tenderest blue , And eyes of dewy light ! But wherefore need I wander wide To old lissus ' ODE ...
43. oldal
... magic girdle wear , At solemn turney hung on high , The wish of each love - darting eye . Lo ! to each other nymph in turn applied , As if , in air unseen , some hovering hand , Some chaste and angel - friend to virgin - fame , With ...
... magic girdle wear , At solemn turney hung on high , The wish of each love - darting eye . Lo ! to each other nymph in turn applied , As if , in air unseen , some hovering hand , Some chaste and angel - friend to virgin - fame , With ...
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99. oldal - To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove: But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No...
82. oldal - He threw his blood-stain'd sword, in thunder, down ; And, with a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe...
79. oldal - When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd around her magic cell...
9. oldal - Or moss-crowned fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest or verdant vales bestow ; Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz
46. oldal - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
66. oldal - O'erhang his wavy bed, Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...
67. oldal - Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum: Now teach me, maid composed, To breathe some softened strain, Whose numbers, stealing through thy darkening vale, May not unseemly with its stillness suit...
81. oldal - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
83. oldal - Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul: And dashing soft from rocks around Bubbling runnels join'd the sound; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
86. oldal - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round ; Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound : And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings. O Music ! sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid, Why, Goddess! why, to us denied, Lay'st thou thy ancient lyre aside...