 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 ページ
...a philosopher, we cannot regret its influence on his poetry. Collins has thus celebrated Fairfax : Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind, Believed the magic wonders which he sung. Nor can there be a doubt, that, as every work of imagination is tinged with the author's passions and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 ページ
...sword ! How have I sat, when piped the pt.isive wind, To hear his harp by British Fairfax strung ! Prevailing poet ! whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung. Hence, at each sound, imagination glows ! Hence, at each picture, vivid life starts here ! ' Hence... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 ページ
...in the following excellent passage of the Life of Dryden. ' Collins has thus celebrated Fairfax : " Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung." ' Nor can there be a doubt, that, as every work of ima' gination is tinged with the author's passions... | |
 | 1821 - 614 ページ
...us a picture of past existence fresh with sincerity, and fraught with authentic character, like the Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung." " It may be doubted if the enlightened imagination of man may always be expected to dwell with the... | |
 | 1821 - 772 ページ
...picture of past existence, fresh with sincerity, and fraught with authentic character, like the — " Prevailing Poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung." On these grounds, namely, that Poetry may be suspected to exhaust her own resources m presenting reiterated... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 ページ
...picture of past existence, fresh with sincerity, and fraught with authentic character, like the — " Prevailing Poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung." On these grounds, namely, that Poetry may be suspected to exhaust her own resources in presenting reiterated... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1821 - 204 ページ
...sword ! How have I sat , when piped the pensive wind , To hear his harp by British Fairfax strung : Prevailing Poet ! whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung \ Hence at each sound Imagination glows : Hence at each picture vivid life starts here ! Hence his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 ページ
...a philosopher, we cannot regret its influence on his poetry. Collins has thus celebrated Fairfax : Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung. Nor can there be a doubt, that, as every work of imagination is tinged with the author's passions and... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 ページ
...vanish'd sword! How have I sat, when piped the pensive wind, To hear his harp by British Fairfax strung! Prevailing poet! whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung; Hence, at each sound, imagination glows ! Hence at each picture, vivid life starts here ! Hence his... | |
 | 1853 - 640 ページ
...truth, are still to nature true." His lines on Fairfax may not unaptly be applied to himself:— " Prevailing poet ! whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung ! Hence at each sound, imagination glows! Hence at each picture vivid life starts here ! Hence his... | |
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How have I sat, when piped the pensive wind, To hear his harp by British Fairfax strung ! Prevailing poet ! whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung ! Hence, at each sound, imagination glows! 
