 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 450 sider
...the instinct for dress, how many experiments they make! Humanity could not dispense with one of them. "The lively Grecian in a land of hills, Rivers and fertile plains and sounding shores," " Could find commodious place for every God." " In despite Of the gross fictions chanted in the streets... | |
 | Thomas Hodgkin - 1911 - 364 sider
...rogueries of Mercury and the servitude of Apollo, — all these products of the myth-making faculty of The lively Grecian in a land of hills, Rivers and...fertile plains and sounding shores, Under a cope of sky more variable, had long ceased to be believed by men of reflection and intelligence. They were... | |
 | Alfred Slater West - 1912 - 364 sider
...wakeful foe, while I, abroad, Through all the coasts of dark destruction seek Deliverance for us all. 26. The lively Grecian, in a land of hills, Rivers and...fertile plains, and sounding shores, Under a cope of sky more variable, Could find commodious place for every god, Promptly received, as prodigally brought,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1915 - 152 sider
...line 283 of that poem. Wordsworth refers to ' Pagan Greece ' and her myths in The Excursion (iv. 718): The lively Grecian, in a land of hills, Rivers and...fertile plains, and sounding shores, — Under a cope of sky more variable, Could find commodious place for every God. See also The Excursion, iv. 851-887.... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1919 - 432 sider
...religion is traced, there is a passage which recalls many a dedicatory inscription in the Anthology : The lively Grecian, in a land of hills, Rivers, and...fertile plains, and sounding shores, Under a cope of sky more variable, Could find commodious place for every god. . . . " Take, running river, take these... | |
 | Leslie Nathan Broughton - 1920 - 214 sider
...understand, as tl city -bred poet who fills his verse with Grecian and Romt mythology can not, why The lively Grecian, in a land of hills, Rivers and...fertile plains, and sounding shores, — Under a cope of sky more variable, Could find commodious place for every God. Excursion 4. 717—721. A Spirit hung,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 500 sider
...habitation of the living have perished. . . . 1. The lines in Wordsworth's Excursion, bk. iv., are — " The lively Grecian, in a land of hills, Rivers, and...variegated sky, Could find commodious place for every god, From the surrounding countries — at the choice Of all adventurers." 2. In the notes to the Excursion... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1882 - 588 sider
...trail, like human clouds, along the waters, seem to us too obviously a reminiscence of the poet's " Lively Grecian in a land of hills, Rivers, and fertile plains, and sounding shores, Under a copse of variegated sky," of " The pagan suckled in a creed outworn," who " Had sight of Proteus rising... | |
 | Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 428 sider
...large! We will join all the sects, both Pagan and Christian, and thus dettroy their differences. " The lively Grecian in a land of hills. Rivers, and fertile plains, and sounding shores, Could find commodious place for every god." In this connection I can not resist the wish that the MAN... | |
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Could find commodious place for every God, Promptly received, as prodigally brought, From the surrounding countries, at the choice Of all adventurers. With... 
