 | 710 pagina’s
...distant home in accents of melancholy ; ' " The poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire : the former has its foundation...the scene which is present, while the latter hovers between recollection and hope. Let me not be understood to affirm that every thing (lows in one strain... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1817 - 708 pagina’s
...character of its songs must be melancholy. Hence the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire : the former has its foundation...and hope. Let me not be understood to affirm that every thing flows in one strain of wailing and complaint, and that the voice of melancholy must always... | |
 | 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...Hence, the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment; ours is that of desire. The former had its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers between recollection and hope.' , . '. If this representation were accurate, gayety should beamply... | |
 | 1831 - 550 pagina’s
...character of its song must he melancholy. Hence the poetry 'of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that 'of desire; the former has its foundation...scene which is ' present, while the latter hovers hetween recollection and hope. ' Let us not be understood to affirm that every thing flows in 'one... | |
 | 1831 - 532 pagina’s
...melancholy. Hence the poetry 'of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that 'of ilr-iiv; the former has its foundation in the scene which is ' present, while the latter hovers between recollection and hope. ' Let us not be understood to affirm that every thing flows in 'one... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 526 pagina’s
...longing for its distant home. Hence, the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours that of desire : the former has its foundation in...while the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope. — W. Schlegel. Note 20, p. 244. And though that hour for resurrection doom'd Be hidden, shrouded... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 330 pagina’s
...longing for its distant home. Hence, the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours that of desire: the former has its foundation in the...present, while the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope.—W. Schlegel. Note 20, p. 244. And though that hour for resurrection doom'd Be hidden, shrouded... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 474 pagina’s
...longing for its distant home. Hence, tho poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours that of desire : the former has its foundation in...which is present, while the latter hovers betwixt recolleetion and hope. — W. Scldrgel. • Note i!0, p. '244. And thnngh timt hmir fur rcmrrirtion... | |
 | Madame Calderón de la Barca (Frances Erskine Inglis) - 1834 - 280 pagina’s
...The poetry of the ancients,' as is well remarked by a German critic, ' is the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire ; the former has its foundation...the scene which is present, while the latter hovers between recollection and hope.' Without an antecedent literature, no charges of plagiarism could be... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 pagina’s
...character of its songs must be melancholy. Hence Ihe poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, e : — " One day," says be, "a great feast was held,...the coming of the Queen of Sbcba was made, or (as ' Sec Gent. Magazine, vol. Ixxxv. p. 319, and Biogrnphia Dramática, 1782, vol. ip 118, article Davenport.... | |
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Hence the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire : the former has its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope. 
