 ... our writers Us'd to obscure their art. Mam. Sir, so I told him — Because the simple idiot should not learn it. And make it vulgar. Sub. Was not all the knowledge Of the Egyptians writ in mystic symbols?  Psyche: With Other Poems - Stran xiavtor: Mary Tighe - 1812 - 311 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1811 - 576 strani
...story of Psyche; of which the author thus farther speaks, with exemplary modesty, in her preface : * I much regret that I can have no hope of affording...poets, Who were the fountains and first springs of wisflom, Wrapt in perplexed allegories ? • But if I have not been able to resist the seductions of... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 696 strani
...scriptures oft in parables? Are not the choicest fables of the poets, JONSOM-I THE ALCHEMIST. Tbat dvocate here ? [VoLP. peeps from behind a traverse. Or this Corbaccio ? Corb. ? .1 'ак. I urgM that, And ciearM to him, that Sysiphus was damn'd To roil the ceaseless stone, only,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 strani
...mystic symbols? Speak not the scriptures oh in parables ? Arc not the choicest fables of the poets, That were the fountains, and first springs of wisdom, Wrapt in perplexed allegories ? .i.om. I urg'd that, And clearM to him, that Sysiphus was damn'd To roll the ceaseless stone, only,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 strani
...symbols? Speak not the scriptures oft in parables ? Are not the choicest fables of the poets. That were the fountains, and first springs of wisdom, Wrapt in perplexed allegories ? .1 urn. 1 urg'd thut, . And deary to him, that Sysiphus was damn'd To roll the ceaseless stone, only,... | |
 | 1812 - 760 strani
...not afford the pleasure she wished to those who declare their dislike to allegory, yet she inquires, "Are not the choicest fables of the Poets, Who were...first springs of wisdom, Wrapt in perplexed Allegories ?" But if she found the seductions of the mysterious fair, " who perhaps never appears captivating,... | |
 | 1910 - 476 strani
...mystic symbols? Speak not the scriptures oft in parables? Are not the choicest fables of the poets, That were the fountains and first springs of wisdom, Wrapt in perplexed allegories? MAM. I urgM that, And clear'd to him, that Sisyphus was damn'd To roll the ceaseless stone, only because... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1911 - 916 strani
...symbols? Speak not the scriptures of t in parables ? Are not the choicest fables of the poets, That were the fountains and first springs of •wisdom, Wrapt in perplexed allegories ? Mam. I urg'd that, «o And clear'd to him, that Sisyphus was damn'd To roll the ceaseless stone,... | |
 | John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 860 strani
...symbols Г " Speak not the scriptures oft in parables? Are not the choicest fables of the poets, That ng crown; So shall my eyes receive their last content, My head, the latest hon Mam. I urg'd that, And clear'd to him, that Sisyphus was damn'd To roll the ceaseless stone, only because... | |
 | Mary Tighe, John Keats - 1928 - 388 strani
...respect, whom I have heard profess themselves ever disgusted by the veiled form of allegory, and yet xi Are not the choicest fables of the poets, Who were...springs of wisdom, Wrapt in perplexed allegories? But if I have not been able to resist the seductions of the mysterious fair, who perhaps never appears... | |
 | James Chandler - 1999 - 616 strani
...iu The Faeire Queene (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), pp. 138-48. 28. "I much regret," writesTighe, "that I can have no hope of affording any pleasure...springs of wisdom. Wrapt in perplexed allegories?" MaryTighe, Psyche: or, The Legend of Love, ed. DH Reiman (New York: Garland, 1978), pv 29. Tighe, Psyche,... | |
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