Require the borrow'd gloss of art ? Speak not of fate : ah ! change the theme, And talk of odours, talk of wine, Talk of the flowers that round us bloom : 'Tis all a cloud, 'tis all a dream ; To love and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the... The British Critic - Página 1531794Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...blow, Where nature spreads her richest dyes, Kequire the borrowed gloss of art? Speak not of fate ; ah, change the theme, And talk of odours, talk of wine,...and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom. With respect to the first stanza of the foregoing, we must observe that the literal rendering-... | |
| 1955 - 396 páginas
...vocabulary. The thenfashionable doctrine of deism was nowhere present: Speak not of fate : — ah ! change the theme, And talk of odours, talk of wine,...and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom. It is not difficult to see why, decades later, Fitz Gerald was so charmed by "A Persian... | |
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