 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1821 - 504 pages
...admirable force in a stanza , at the end of 1m " Ode on the superstitions of the Highlands . " In seenes like these > which daring to depart From sober truth...call forth fresh delight to Fancy's view * Th' heroic Mus« employed her Tasso"* heart ! How have I trembled « when « at Fancy's stroke Its gushing blood... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 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, atTancred's stroke, Its gushing... | |
 | 1853 - 640 pages
...that on Highland superstitions: it displays the disposition of his mind, his fondness of the scenes, " Which, daring to depart From sober truth, are still to nature true." His lines on Fairfax may not unaptly be applied to himself:— " Prevailing poet ! whose undoubting... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...native legends of thy land rehearse ; To such adapt thy lyre, and suit thy jiow'rful verse. XII. In scenes like these, which, daring to depart From sober...heroic muse employ'd her Tasso's art ! How have I trembl'd, when, at Tancred's stroke, Of Lyric Its gushing blood the gaping cypress pour'd, Poetry.... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...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, atTancred's stroke, Its gushing... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...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... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...native legends of thy land rehearse : To such adapt thy lyre, and suit thy powerful verse. XIV. 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... | |
 | William Stewart Rose - Anecdotes - 1825 - 204 pages
...responsible agent? and I rank, indeed, among the many happy fictions of the author of the Scottish novels, " which, daring to depart From sober truth, are still to nature true" — the having, in his story of Redgauntlet, sent an ape to hell. and who professed to take them with... | |
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 pages
...native legends of thy land rehearse ; To such adapt thy lyre, and suit thy powerful verse. XII. In scenes like these, which, daring to depart From sober truth, are still to nature true, 190 And call forth fresh delight to Fancy's view, Th' heroic muse employ 'd her Tasso's art ! How have... | |
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IN scenes like these, which, daring to depart From sober truth, are still to nature true, And call forth fresh delight to fancy's view, Th... 
