 The Celt's quick feeling for what is noble and distinguished gave his poetry style ; his indomitable personality gave it pride and passion; his sensibility and nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still, the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity...  Der Stil des Macphersonschen Ossian - Page 22by Walther Drechsler - 1904 - 82 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1866 - 826 pages
...personality gave it pride and passion ; his sensibility and nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still, the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers, are everywhere in romance. They have a... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1867 - 216 pages
...personality gave it pride and passion ; his sensibility and nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still, the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers, are everywhere in romance. They have a... | |
 | Ulick Joseph Bourke - Celts - 1875 - 576 pages
...a mistres, that it seem* impossible to believe the power did not come into romance from the Kelts. Magic is just the word for it — the magic of nature, not merely the beauty of nature — thafc the Greeks and Latins had ; not merely an honest smack of the soil, a faithful realism, that... | |
 | Ulick J. Bourke - Celts - 1875 - 570 pages
...gave it pride and passion ; his sensibility and nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still — the gift of rendering, with wonderful felicity, the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers are everywhere in romance. They have a mysterious... | |
 | Ulick J. Bourke - Celts - 1875 - 570 pages
...gave it pride and passion ; his sensibility and nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still — the gift of rendering, with wonderful felicity, the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers are everywhere in romance. They have a mysterious... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English prose literature - 1880 - 354 pages
...personality gave it pride and passion ; his sensibility and nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still, the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers, are everywhere in romance. They have a... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1883 - 340 pages
...personality gave it pride and passion ; his sensibility and nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still, the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers, are everywhere in romance. They have a... | |
 | John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1892 - 488 pages
...personality gave it pride and passion ; his sensibility and nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still, the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers, are everywhere in romance. They have a... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1896 - 428 pages
...gave it pride and passion; his sensibility and nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still, •— the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the...is just the word for it, — the magic of nature, her weird power and her fairy charm." ' i:i; -UuUs was the folk-song and the .-•;v!-v n.ia. ol t\\o... | |
 | 1900 - 668 pages
...gave it pride and passion ; his sensibility and nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still — the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers are everywhere in romance. They have a mysterious... | |
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