 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...verse. Proceed! nor quit the tales which, simply told, Could once so well my answering bosom pierce; 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - English literature - 1854 - 354 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 truth, are still to nature true, I is»o And call forth fresh delight to Fancy's view, | Th' heroic Muse employ'd her Tasso's art 1... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 512 pages
...instinctive feeling seems to have led that true poet, Collins, to express himself as follows : — 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. • » » » * Prevailing poet ! whose undouhting mind Believed... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 510 pages
...seems to have led that true poet, Collins, to express himself as follows : — In scenes like those, which, daring to depart From sober truth, are still...true, And call forth fresh delight to fancy's view. The heroic Muse employed her Tasso's art. ***** Prevailing poet ! whose undoubting mind Believed the... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - Crusades - 1858 - 518 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 employed her Tasso's art ! How have I trembled, when, at Tancred's stroke, Its gushing... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1871 - 614 pages
...Highlands of Scotland '*: — " In scenes like these, which, daring to depart From sober truth, arc still to nature 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, In gushing... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...The 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...The 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...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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 632 pages
...The native legends of thy land rehearse ; To such adapt thy lyre and suit thy powerful verse. XIL 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... | |
 | sir Edmund William Gosse - 1881 - 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... | |
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