 | William Collins - 1907 - 146 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...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 - 1907 - 140 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, Th1 heroic muse employed her TASSO'S art ! How have I trembled, when, at TANCRED'S stroke, Its gushing... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...The native legends of thy land rehearse; 187 To such adapt thy lyre and suit thy pow'rful verse. 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...The native legends of thy land rehearse; To such adapt thy lyre and suit thy pow'rful 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 employed her Tasso's art: How have... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 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... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 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...heroic muse employ'd her TASSO'S art ! How have I trembled, when, at TANCRED'S stroke, When each live plant with mortal accents spoke, And the wild blast... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1911 - 792 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...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, Ite gushing blood the gaping... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 422 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...forth fresh delight to Fancy's view, Th' heroic muse employed her Tasso's art! •How have I trembled, when, at Tancred's stroke, Its gushing blood the... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 492 pages
...calls to him. This it is which for him gives to Scotland a peculiar charm. The poet delights — In scenes like these, which, daring to depart From sober...nature true, And call forth fresh delight to fancy's view.1 And with the spirit of a dead age about him the poet's cold lips take the glow and mystic utterance... | |
 | English philology - 1924 - 138 pages
...auch von der Kritik « false themes » genannt werden, er brauche sich ihrer nicht zu schämen, denn «scenes like these, which, daring to depart from sober truth, are still to nature true». Die Worte Collins' bezeichnen den Standpunkt der Kritik völlig eindeutig. Er stellt hier mit voller... | |
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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... 
