 Such truth in love as the' antique world did know, In such a style as courts may boast of now; Which no bold tales of gods or monsters swell, But human passions, such as with us dwell. Man is thy theme, his virtue or his rage Drawn to the life in each...  The Works of the English Poets - Page 94edited by - 1779Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1868 - 428 pages
...new vein of invention : — " Here no bold tales of gods or monsters swell, But human passions such as with us dwell ; Man is thy theme, his virtue or...his rage, Drawn to the life in each elaborate page." WALLEE. " Methinks heroic poesy, till now, Like some fantastic fairy-land did show, And ail but man,... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1874 - 400 pages
...it in the following lines :— Here no bold tales of gods or monsters swell, But human passions such as with us dwell; Man is thy theme, his virtue or...his rage, Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. The narrative is diffuse, the action without unity, the events are complicated, and the language often... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...What were unenlighten'd man ? A savage roaming through the woods and wilds In quest of prey. THOMSON. Man is thy theme, his virtue or his rage Drawn to the life in each elab'rate page. WALLER. More danger now from man alone we find Than from the rocks, the billows, and... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1877 - 442 pages
...Waller mit den Versen rühmt : Here no bold talts of gods or monsters swell, But human passions such as with us dwell ; Man is thy theme , his virtue or...his rage, Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Wir wollen auch keineswegs die übernatürliche Maschinerie als ein unbedingtes Erfordernis eines modernen... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...What were unenlighten'd man? A savage roaming through the woods and wilds In quest of prey. THOMSON. Man is thy theme, his virtue or his rage Drawn to the life in each elab'rate page. WALLER. More danger now from man alone we find Than from the rocks, the billows, and... | |
 | Walter Hamilton - 1879 - 346 pages
...as courts may boast of now ; Which no bold tales of gods or monsters swell, But human passions, such as with us dwell. Man is thy theme ; his virtue, or...his rage, Drawn to the life in each elaborate page." But the critics complained that the elaborate panegyric of Hobbes raised their expectations too high,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 772 pages
...invention:— " Here no bold tales of gods or monsters swell. But human passions such as with us dwell ; Van it thy theme, his virtue or his rage, Drawn to the life in each elaborate page." WALLK& "Methinks heroic poesy, till now, Like some fantastic fairy-land did show, And ali but OHIO,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1884 - 390 pages
...brother poet warmly sang : — " Here no bold tales of gods or monsters swell, But human passions such as with us dwell ; Man is thy theme, his virtue or...rage, Drawn to the life in each elaborate page."— Waller. He says, in the postscript to the first edition, " I am here arrived at the middle of the third... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1885 - 266 pages
...new kind of poetical numbers could be. And thus he sums up the matter of his friend's epic : — " Man is thy theme, his virtue or his rage Drawn to...elaborate page ; Mars nor Bellona are not named here, But such a Gondibert as both might fear. Venus had here, and Hebe, been outshin'd By thy bright Bertha... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1885 - 260 pages
...the new kind of poetical numbers could be. And thus' he sums up the matter of his friend's epic:— " Man is thy theme, his virtue or his rage Drawn to...elaborate page ; Mars nor Bellona are not named here, But such a Gondibert as both might fear. Venus had here, and Hebe, been outshin'd By thy bright Bertha... | |
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