 | Books - 1824 - 564 pages
...eternal mists and tempests, — that represents it as inaccessible, even to a man provided with twenty hands and twenty feet, and immerses its base among...justice, to be read only as a poet? In the writings of so exquisite a bard, we must not expect to find all his representations strictly confined to a mere accurate... | |
 | 1824 - 612 pages
...(over) eternal mists and tempests ; that represents it as inaccessible to a man provided with twenty hands and twenty feet; and immerses its base among...justice to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so e\quisite-a bard we must not expect to find all his representations cbielly confined to a mere accurate... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...eternal mists and tempests — that represents it as inaccessible, even to a man provided with twenty hands and twenty feet, and immerses its base among...justice, to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so exquisite a bard, we must not expect to find all his representations strictly confined to a mere accurate... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Geology - 1824 - 440 pages
...eternal mists and tempests — that represents it as inaccessible, even to a man provided with twenty hands and twenty feet, and immerses its base among...justice, to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so exquisite a bard, we must not expect to find all his representations strictly confined to a mere accurate... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1824 - 728 pages
...eternal mists and tempests — that represents it as inaccessible, even to a man provided with twenty hands and twenty feet, and immerses its base among...Homer, who, though so frequently dragged forth as ma authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography, might in justice to be read only as- a poet.... | |
 | Science - 1825 - 482 pages
...eternal mists and tempests ; that represents it as inaccessible, even to a man provided with twenty hands and twenty feet, and immerses its base among...justice, to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so exquisite a bard, we must not expect to find all his representations strictly confined to a mere accurate... | |
 | Science - 1825 - 470 pages
...eternal mists and tempests ; that represents it as inaccessible, even to a man provided with twenty hands and twenty feet, and immerses its base among...authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography, oughty injustice, to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so exquisite a bard, we must not expect... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1825 - 590 pages
...a man provided with, twenty hands and twenty feet, and immerses its base among ravenous sea dogs ; •why not also receive the whole circle of mythological...geography, ought, in justice, to be read, only as a [;oet. In the writings of so exquisite a bard, we must not expect to find all his representations st.... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 452 pages
...eternal mists and tempests — that represents it as inaccessible, even to a man provided with twenty hands and twenty feet, and immerses its base among...justice to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so exquisite a bard, we must not expect to find all his representations strictly confined to a mere accurate... | |
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But the flights of poetry can seldom bear to be shackled by . homely truth, and if we are to receive the fine imagery, that places the summit of this rock in clouds brooding eternal mists and tempests, — that represents it as inaccessible, even to a... 
