 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...bold, The native legends of thy land rehearse j To such adapt thy lyre, and suit thy powerful verse. In scenes like these, which, daring to depart From sober...Fancy's view, Th' heroic Muse employ'd her Tasso's artHow have 1 trembled, when, at Tancred's stroke. Its gushing blood the gaping cypress pour'd ! When... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...Proceed! nor quit the tales which, simply told, Could once so well my answering hosom pierce; From soher truth, are still to Nature true, And call forth fresh...Th' heroic Muse employ'd her Tasso's art. How have I tremhled, when, at Tancred's stroke. Its gushing hlood the gaping cypress pour'd ! When each live plant... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...bold, The native legends of thy land rehearse; To such adapt thy lyre, and suit thy powerful verse. In scenes like these, which, daring to depart From sober...true, And call forth fresh delight to fancy's view, The heroic muse employed her Tasso's art ! How have I trembled, when, at Tancred's stroke, Its gushing... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...The native legends of thy land rehearse ; To such adapt, thy lyre, and suit thy pow-erful verse. In scenes like these, which; daring to depart From sober truth, are still to Nat<ire true, And call forth fresh delight to Fancy's view, Til' heron? Muse employ'd her Tasso's art.... | |
 | William Collins - 1811 - 162 pages
...bold, The native legends of thy land rehearse ; To such adapt thy lyre, and suit thy pow'rful verse. In scenes like these, which, daring to depart From sober...heroic muse employ'd her Tasso's art ! How have I trembled, when, at Tancred's stroke, Its gushing blood the gaping cypress pour'd ! When each live plant... | |
 | William Collins - 1815 - 118 pages
...lyre, and suit thy powerful verse. In scenes like these, which, darting to depart From soher trnth, are still to Nature true, And call forth fresh delight...Fancy's view, Th' heroic muse employ'd her Tasso's heart I How have I tremhled, when, at Tancred's stroke, Its gushing hlood the gaping cypress pour'd... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 418 pages
...bold, The native legends of thy land rehearse ; To such adapt thy lyre, and suit thy powerful verse. In scenes like these, which, daring to depart From sober...heroic Muse employ'd her Tasso's art ! How have I trembled, when, at Tancred's stroke, Its gushing blood the gaping cypress pour'd ! When each live plant... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...bold, The native legends of thy land rehearse ; To such adapt thy lyre, and suit thy powerful verse. In scenes like these, which, daring to depart From sober...true, And call forth fresh delight to Fancy's view, The' heroic Muse employ'd her Tasso's art ! How have I trembled, when, at Tancred's stroke, Its gushing... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1821 - 204 pages
...force in a st.•iuza , at the end of hi* " Ode on the superstitions of the Highlands . " In seenes like these , which daring to depart From sober truth...Fancy's view , Th' heroic Muse employ'd her Tasso's heart •' How have I trembled , when , at Fancy's stroke . Its gushing blood the gaping cypress pour"d... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 412 pages
...goose, on the eggs of which the inhabitants of St. Kilda, another of the Hebrides, chiefly subsist. In scenes like these, which, daring to depart From sober...forth fresh delight to Fancy's view, Th' heroic Muse employ 'd her Tasso's art. How have I trembled, when, at Tancred's stroke Its gushing blood the gaping... | |
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