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... poet's ecstasy . In varying cadence , soft or strong , He swept the sounding chords along ; The present scene , the future lot , His toils , his wants , were all forgot ; Cold diffidence and age's frost In the full tide of song were ...
... poet's ecstasy . In varying cadence , soft or strong , He swept the sounding chords along ; The present scene , the future lot , His toils , his wants , were all forgot ; Cold diffidence and age's frost In the full tide of song were ...
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William Henry Schofield. only " the Minstrel " worthy to stand as the poet's memorable designation . Once grant the universal assumption that Blind Harry was truly a blind minstrel , and he and his book are a bewildering puzzle ; for the ...
William Henry Schofield. only " the Minstrel " worthy to stand as the poet's memorable designation . Once grant the universal assumption that Blind Harry was truly a blind minstrel , and he and his book are a bewildering puzzle ; for the ...
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... poem to be throughout a translation from the Latin . " " " * This sort of questioning has of ... Wallace , a carefully - wrought poem of nearly twelve thousand lines ... poet's blindness , however , remains a matter of sore dispute . Some ...
... poem to be throughout a translation from the Latin . " " " * This sort of questioning has of ... Wallace , a carefully - wrought poem of nearly twelve thousand lines ... poet's blindness , however , remains a matter of sore dispute . Some ...
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... poem are something of a conundrum . " The latest scholarly judgment on the subject in print is that of Mr. George Neilson , who , in an illu- minating essay published in 1910 , * speaks of the Wallace as " a conscious heroic poem of a ...
... poem are something of a conundrum . " The latest scholarly judgment on the subject in print is that of Mr. George Neilson , who , in an illu- minating essay published in 1910 , * speaks of the Wallace as " a conscious heroic poem of a ...
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... poet is identical with the writer of the same name to whom , as we have seen , Major , † in 1521 , attributes a " whole book " about Wallace , " written with great skill in vernacular rhymes " during the historian's lifetime ; or that ...
... poet is identical with the writer of the same name to whom , as we have seen , Major , † in 1521 , attributes a " whole book " about Wallace , " written with great skill in vernacular rhymes " during the historian's lifetime ; or that ...
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Æsir ancient antiquity appears ballad believed Billie Blin Blaise blind bard Blind Harry Caeilte called Celtic Celts century Chaucer chroniclers deeds Dionysus divine Dunbar dwarf English epic eyes fable faery fairy fiction Finn Gaelic genius ghost gods Greek Grímnismál Harry's Hávamál Henry the Minstrel heralds hero Hibbert Lectures Homer inspiration Ireland Irish John King Kouretes land Latin literary Lord lore Major Master Blair Merlin Mimir minstrel mortals Muses mysterious myth mythical narrative Neilson noble Nutt Odin Oisin Old Norse Ossian otherworld pagan passage Patrick person personage poem poesy poet poet's poetic poetry prophecies prophets recited remarks romance says Scotland Scots Scottish sight Silva Gadelica Snorri song spirit story supernatural tale Taliessin tell Thomas Rhymer thou tion Tiresias tradition trans truth Voyage of Bran Wallace-poet Wallace's wisdom wonderful words writes written wrote
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Page 221 - And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Page 40 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Page 92 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 332 - For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man hath somewhat of the savage beast; but it is most untrue that it should have any character at all of the divine nature; except...
Page 227 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 250 - Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact...
Page 5 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory...
Page 254 - ... and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.
Page 261 - To be no more : sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity., To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 236 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; •• Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear?