 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...in l600. Collins has paid the original author and translator the following singular compliment : " How have I sate, while piped the pensive wind, To...by British Fairfax strung ; Prevailing poet, whose undoubiing mind Believed the magic wonders that he sung." Ode on Highland Superititiont. ing my opinion... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...a philosopher, we cannot regret its influence on his poetry. Collins has thus celebrated Fairfax : Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind, Believed the magic wonders which he sung. Nor can there be a doubt, that, as every work of imagination is tinged with the author's passions and... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...wild blast upheaved the vanished sword ! How have I sat, when piped the pt.isive wind, To hear his harp by British Fairfax strung ! Prevailing poet !...undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung. Hence, at each sound, imagination glows ! Hence, at each picture, vivid life starts here ! ' Hence... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...in the following excellent passage of the Life of Dryden. ' Collins has thus celebrated Fairfax : " Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung." ' Nor can there be a doubt, that, as every work of ima' gination is tinged with the author's passions... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...in 1600. Collins has paid the original author and translator the following singular compliment : " How have I sate, while piped the pensive wind, To...poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders that he sung." Ode on Highland Superstition, ding my opinion on him. Or, if I seem partial to my countryman... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...was published in 1600. Collins, in apostrophizing Tasso, does not forget his congenial translator : How have I sate while piped the pensive wind. To hear thy harp by British Fairfax strung j Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders that he sung. Ode on Scottish Superstitions:... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1821 - 204 pages
...wild blast upheaved the vanish'd sword ! How have I sat , when piped the pensive wind , To hear his harp by British Fairfax strung : Prevailing Poet !...undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung \ Hence at each sound Imagination glows : Hence at each picture vivid life starts here ! Hence his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...a philosopher, we cannot regret its influence on his poetry. Collins has thus celebrated Fairfax : Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung. Nor can there be a doubt, that, as every work of imagination is tinged with the author's passions and... | |
 | 1821 - 772 pages
...picture of past existence, fresh with sincerity, and fraught with authentic character, like the — " Prevailing Poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung." On these grounds, namely, that Poetry may be suspected to exhaust her own resources m presenting reiterated... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 pages
...picture of past existence, fresh with sincerity, and fraught with authentic character, like the — " Prevailing Poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung." On these grounds, namely, that Poetry may be suspected to exhaust her own resources in presenting reiterated... | |
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How have I sat, when piped the pensive wind, To hear his harp by British Fairfax strung ! Prevailing poet ! whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung... 
