 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 str.
...THE DIVINE HIND, THE ORIGIN OF EVERY QUALITY PLEASING TO THE IMAGINATION. ERE the radiant sun Sprung from the east, or 'mid the vault of night The moon suspended her serener lamp ; Ere mountains, woods, or streams adorned the globe, Or wisdom taught the sons of men her lore, Then... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 str.
...Nemo igitur vir magnus sine aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit." And Akenside says,— " From Heav'n descends The flame of genius to the human breast,...love, and beauty, and poetic joy, And inspiration." But M. de Buffon asserts that " genius is the repeated effort of thinking ; it comes not by inspiration,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1834 - 434 str.
...discussion, Akenside beautifully alludes in the first book of his " Pleasures of Imagination :" — Ere the radiant sun Sprang from the east, or, mid...vault of night, The moon suspended her serener lamp ; Ere mountains, woods, or streams adorn'd the globe, Or Wisdom taught the sons of men her lore ; *... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 str.
...Akenside in that fine poem which is itself a history of genius, in tracing its source, first s*ng, . From heaven my strains begin, from heaven descends The flame of genius to the fuiman brtost. but in the final revision of that poem he left many years after, the bard baa vindicated... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1835 - 416 str.
...kind peace gs Or public zeal, may then thy mind well-pleas'd Recall these happy studies of our prime. From Heaven my strains begin : from Heaven descends The flame of genius to the chosen breast, And beauty with poetic wonder join'd, icxi And inspiration. Ere the rising sun Shone... | |
 | 1836 - 388 str.
...flowers Cull'd from the laureate vale's profound recess, Where never poet gain'da wreath before. Prom Heaven my strains begin; from Heaven descends The...vault of night The Moon suspended her serener lamp ; Ere mountains, woods, or streams, adorn'd the globe, Or Wisdom taught the sons of men her lore ;... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 422 str.
...read those opinions without recalling to our recollection one of the finest passages in Akenside ? • Ere the radiant sun Sprang from the east, or 'mid...vault of night, The moon suspended her serener lamp, — Ere mountains, woods, or streams adorn'd the globe, Or Wisdom taught the sons of men her lore,... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1838 - 352 str.
...flowers Cull'd from the laureate vale's profound recess, Where never poet gain'da wreath before. 53 From * heaven my strains begin ; from heaven descends...the human breast, And love and beauty, and poetic jcgr And inspiration. Ere the iarit sun Sprang from the east, or ?nnd the vault of night 60The moon... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1839 - 418 str.
...the nature of genius. AKENSIDE, in that fine poem which forms its history, tracing its source, sang, From Heaven my strains begin, from Heaven descends The flame of genius to the human breast. But in the final revision of that poem, which he left many years after, the bard has vindicated the... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 str.
...unfading flowers Cull'd from the laureate vale's profound recess, Where never poet gain'da wreath before. From Heaven my strains begin ; from Heaven descends...vault of night The moon suspended her serener lamp ; Ere mountains, woods, or streams adorn'd the globe, Or Wisdom taught the sons of men her lore ; Then... | |
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From Heaven my strains begin; from Heaven descends The flame of genius to the human breast, And love and beauty, and poetic joy And inspiration. Ere the radiant Sun Sprang from the east, or 'mid the vault of night The Moon suspended her serener lamp ;... 
