Phalerion, a painter, celebrated for his nervous representation of the awful and the tremendous, exerted his whole talent. But the flights of poetry can seldom bear to be shackled by . homely truth, and if we are to receive the fine imagery, that places... The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 4021825Full view - About this book
| 1824 - 564 pages
...so often disputed, I particularly state, that the Faro Tower is exactly six thousand and forty-seven English yards from that classical bugbear, the Rock...authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography, ought, in justice, to be read only as a poet? In the writings of so exquisite a bard, we must not expect... | |
| 1824 - 452 pages
...so often disputed, I particularly state, that the Faro Tower is exactly six thousand and forty-seven English yards from that classical bugbear, the Rock...authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography, ought, in justice, to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so exquisite a bard, we must not expect... | |
| William Henry Smyth - 1824 - 440 pages
...Faro Tower is exactly six thousand and forty-seven English yards from that classical bugbear, the Eock of Scylla, which, by poetical fiction, has been depicted...authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography, ought, in justice, to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so exquisite a bard, we must not expect... | |
| 1824 - 716 pages
...Phalerion, a painter, celebrated for his nervous representation of the awful and the tremendons, exerted bis whole talent. But the flights of poetry can seldom...authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography, ought in justice to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so exquisite a bard, we must not expect... | |
| 1824 - 706 pages
...name : mendous, exerted hi» whole talent. But the flights of poetry can seldom bear to be lhackled by homely truth, and if we are to receive the fine...authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography, ought, in justice, to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so exquisite a bard, те must not... | |
| 1824 - 728 pages
...nervous representation of the awful and the tremenilons, exerted his whole talent. But the flights cf poetry can seldom bear to be shackled by homely truth,...Homer, who, though so frequently dragged forth as ma authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography, might in justice to be read only as- a poet.... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1824 - 616 pages
...this rock in clouds brooding (over) eternal mists and tempests ; that represents it as inaccessible to a man provided with twenty hands and twenty feet...authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography, ought in justice to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so exquisite a bard we must not expect... | |
| 1824 - 612 pages
...this rock in clouds brooding (over) eternal mists and tempests ; that represents it as inaccessible to a man provided with twenty hands and twenty feet;...authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography, ought in justice to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so e\quisite-a bard we must not expect... | |
| 1825 - 590 pages
...summit of this rock in clouds, brooding eternal mists and tempests; that represents it as inacceptable even to a man provided with, twenty hands and twenty feet, and immerses its base among ravenous sea dogs ; •why not also receive the whole circle of mythological dogmas of Homer, who, though so... | |
| William Hone - 1827 - 390 pages
...so often disputed, I particularly state, that the Faro Tower is exactly six thousand and forty-seven English yards from that classical bugbear, the Rock...authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography, ought injustice to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so exquisite a bard, we must not expect... | |
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