| Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1800 - 440 pages
...character -of our anceftors. Above all, fuch are their terrible graces of magic and enchantment, fo magnificently marvellous are their fictions and fablings, that they contribute, in a wonderful degree, to route and invigorate all the powers of imagination: to ftore the applies to a Knight, that he would... | |
| John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 258 pages
...viewed with increasing pleasure and admiration. Nor is it any wonder, for "such are their teirible graces of magic and enchantment, so magnificently...innocence and freedom from vice. Plato would have Lave had no reason to have excluded the painter of fairies and elves from his republic, as he did the... | |
| Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 354 pages
...Terrible Graces of magic and enchantment, so magnificently marvellous are their fictions and failings, that they contribute, in a wonderful degree, to rouse and invigorate all the powers of imagination : to store the fancy •with those sublime and alarming images, which true poetry best... | |
| Richard Hurd - Chivalry - 1911 - 188 pages
...its bearings. Old romances throw considerable light on the nature of the feudal system. ' Above all, such are their Terrible Graces of magic and enchantment,...imagination : to store the fancy with those sublime and alarming images, which true poetry best delights to display ' (vide Postscriptum). Hurd's seventh Letter... | |
| Richard Hurd - Chivalry - 1911 - 190 pages
...its bearings. Old romances throw considerable light on the nature of the feudal system. ' Above all, such are their Terrible Graces of magic and enchantment,...imagination : to store the fancy with those sublime and alarming images, which true poetry best delights to display' (vide Postscriptum). Kurd's seventh Letter... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...ancestors. Above all, such are their terrible graces of magic and enchantment, so magnificently marvelous are their fictions and fablings, that they contribute...wonderful degree to rouse and invigorate all the powers of imagination, to store the fancy with those sublime and alarming images which true poetry best delights... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...ancestors. Above all, such are their terrible graces of magic and enchantment, so magnificently marvelous are their fictions and fablings, that they contribute...wonderful degree to rouse and invigorate all the powers of imagination, to store the fancy with those sublime and alarming images which true poetry best delights... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...terrible graces of magic and enchantment, so magnificently marvelous are their fictions and fabJingSjJhat they contribute in a wonderful degree to rouse and invigorate all the powers of imagination, to store the fancy with those sublime and alarming images which true poetry best deljghts... | |
| Modern Language Association of America - Languages, Modern - 1915 - 1054 pages
...Terrible Graces of magic and enchantment, so magnificently marvellous are their fictions and failings, that they contribute in a wonderful degree, to rouse and invigorate all the powers of imagination : to store the fancy with those sublime and alarming images, which true poetry best delights... | |
| George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...represent the manners, genius, and character of our ancestors. Above all, such are their terrible 86 ature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned imagination; to store the fancy with those sublime and alarming images which poetry best delights to... | |
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