 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted te rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze...the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water falls of Ely' sian gardens. ' " This was however the character rather of his inclination than... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantaient, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens. " This was however the character rather of his inclination than his genius: the grandeur of wildness,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of inchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens. " This was however the character rather of his inclination than his genius ; the grandeur of wildness,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of inchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens. " This was however the character rather of his inclination than his genius ; the grandeur of wildness,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...subjects of fancy ; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds...palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens. " This was however the character rather of his inclination than his genius ; the grandeur of wiklncss,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1811 - 568 pages
...consequence of such attributes, that, like Collins, ' he loves fairies, genii, giants and monsters ; delights to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, and to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens." To this taste we owe the ' wild and wondrous... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 540 pages
...subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds...palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens. This was, however, the character rather of his inclination than hi* genius; the grandeur of wildness,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 538 pages
...subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds...palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens. This was, however, the character rather of his inclination than his genius; the grandeur of wildness,... | |
 | Biography - 1813 - 536 pages
...subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds...of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Eiysian gardens. This was, however, the character rather of his inclination than his genius; the grandeur... | |
 | 1813 - 1082 pages
...by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He lov"ed fairies and genii, giants and mensters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the mag. nificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens. Perhaps the preceding... | |
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He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy ; and by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled... 
