 | Richard William Church - 1888 - 282 pages
...earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; (Pitches her tents before mo as I move, An hourly neighbour. Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields —...like those of old Sought in the Atlantic main — why ihuutd theg fo A historg onlg of departed tiiing*, Or a men fiction of what never woi J For the diiccrning... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1888 - 698 pages
...earth's materials — waits upon my step'-; Pilches her tents before me as I move, An hourly i eighbour. Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields— like those of old Sought in the Atlantic main— wl.ys/.o;.W they bi A history only of departed things, Or a mtrt fiction of uihat never wast For the... | |
 | 1890 - 612 pages
...• ' Beauty .... waits upon iny steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move ; An hourly neighbor, Paradise, and groves Elysian, fortunate fields like...departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of man, When wedded to his goodly universe In love and holy passion,... | |
 | William Wordsworth, John Morley (viscount) - 1890 - 1012 pages
...earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour. Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields —...Sought in the Atlantic Main — why should they be Л history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1890 - 396 pages
...unflinching fidelity if she was to be described with truth or freshness. He asks why should poetry be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion,... | |
 | Tom Henighan - 1982 - 300 pages
...realistic note (in "The Recluse", 1814) when he writes as follows about the image in question: . . . Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields —...departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion,... | |
 | Stuart Curran - 1990 - 280 pages
...from the same generic and ideological premises, driving them to a serious, revolutionary conclusion: Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields —...departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion,... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman - 1987 - 281 pages
...and reenforcing of "earth's materials." The "Prospectus" that so upset Blake goes on to declare: .... Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields—...departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion,... | |
 | Celeste Marguerite Schenck - 1988 - 248 pages
...Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields—like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main—why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion,... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 1988 - 338 pages
...always opposed the sort of mindless classicizing verse that ransacks the past for dilapidated myths, "A history only of departed things, / Or a mere fiction of what never was." Why then did he choose to tell this faded story? Doubtless the theme of duty appealed to him. Protesilaus... | |
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Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly... 
