 Meanwhile, whate'er of beautiful, or new, Sublime, or dreadful, in earth, sea, or sky, By chance, or search, was offer'd to his view, He scan'd with curious and romantic eye.  The Ruminator: Containing a Series of Moral, Critical, and Sentimental Essays - Page viiiby Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813Full view - About this book
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1920 - 398 pages
...wholly gone, for Beattie had read Percy, and doubtless also Hurd — Gothic was no longer a frivolity : Whate'er of lore tradition could supply From gothic...old, Rous'd him, still keen to listen and to pry. In the second place the real interest of Beattie's performance is not in any formal reference to Spenser.... | |
 | Eric Partridge - 1924 - 284 pages
...artistic and poetic temperament that may well stand for the implied motto of the new school of writers : Meanwhile, whate'er of beautiful or new, Sublime,...sky, By chance or search, was offer'd to his view, He scann'd with curious and romantic eye. Book II, which consists largely of moral reflections and precepts,... | |
 | Eino Railo - 1927 - 434 pages
..." in balmy gloom," " in the mournful howl of the storm," " in the owl's terrific song," etc. : .... Whate'er of beautiful, or new, Sublime, or dreadful,...his view, He scan'd with curious and romantic eye. • He is an " enthusiast " of solitude, who delights in walking long distances to the shore of a foaming... | |
 | John Sitter - 2001 - 322 pages
...Indolence, the poem follows the education of young Edwin the harpist, a child of nature who delighted in "Whate'er of lore tradition could supply / From Gothic tale, or song, or fable old," and scanned every aspect of the natural world "with curious and romantic eye" (1, lines 517-19). In... | |
 | Michael Levey - 2005 - 372 pages
...in dealing with the inspiring infIuence of nature upon a growing child. " Edwin is a visionary boy: Whate'er of beautiful or new Sublime, or dreadful, in earth, sea, or sky |. . .| He scanned with curious and romantic eye. Whether or not Lawrence knew or was influenced by... | |
 | Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne - 1917 - 376 pages
...Sublime, or dreadful, in earth, air, or sky, By chance or search was offered to his view, He scanned with curious and romantic eye. Whate'er, of lore,...could supply, From Gothic tale, or song, or fable old, Boused him.' All who looked to the mental and spiritual for any portion of their enjoyment, and were... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1834 - 580 pages
...sea-shore is no frivolous amusement.'1 She has already spent much time in — u Seeking what«' er of beautiful or new, Sublime, or dreadful, in earth, sea, or sky, By chance, or searcii, was offered to hrr view To scan with curious and romantic eye." All her works bear the stamp... | |
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