 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 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, How have I trembled, when at TANCRED'S stroke, Its gushing blood the gaping cypress pour'd ; When each... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1871 - 614 pages
...rather long, from Collins's "Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland'': — " 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 1 trembled, when at Tancred's stroke, In gushing... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - Fiction - 2000 - 322 pages
...introduction of the pathetic would, most probably, seal it for immortality, for it is nevertheless In scenes like these, which daring to depart From sober...true, And call forth fresh delight to Fancy's view, Th'heroic muse employ' d her Tasso's art\ How have I sat, when pip'd the pensive wind, To hear his... | |
 | Deborah Elise White - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 252 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, And call forth fresh delights to Fancy's view, 190 The heroic Muse employed her Tasso's art! How have I trembled when, at... | |
 | Mark Salber Phillips, Mark Phillips, Gordon J. Schochet - Social Science - 2004 - 348 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, And call forth fresh delights to Fancy's view, The heroic Muse employed her Tasso's art!58 Like Burke, Collins reverses... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1872 - 688 pages
...requirements of another." And Collins sings of the translator in language beautiful as his own, — " 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 Tasao's art. How have I trembled, when at Tuncred's stroke, Its gushing... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1839 - 608 pages
...bold as to attempt it, we should simply ask, if he has succeeded in it. His very calling lies " In scenes like these, which, daring to depart From sober Truth, are still to Nature true." As for the assertion, that magic, and sorcery, and fairies, and ghosts were once objects of the popular... | |
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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... 
