...banish him from his long-loved haunts with tokens of deep regret. Like Milion'i inore elegant fay, " ' From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent'." " The last Brownie who haunted a wild and solitary spot in Ettrick forest,...

...oracles at an end ; which facts, though, perhaps, not historically true, are poetically beautiful. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...and loud lament ! • From haunted spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-enwoven tresses torn,...

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...not historically true, are poetically/ beautiful; . , • .• i .• . i .1 .".. i .• . i. - . . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...of weeping heard, and loud lament ? ; From haunted spri-rig, and dale '• •i M : Edg'd with poplar pale. The parting Genius is with sighing sent; 'Wrth...

...*fo voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. \pollo from his shrine -an no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...

..."The oracles arc dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof, in words deceiving : Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." If this be true, it is also certain that one possessed of a spirit of Python lived and practised divination...

...last leave of our island, and afraid that the world will.not afford her another place of refuge. « The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale, >} The parting Geniu, is with ^gj-£ „„ chAsft Philosophy is now the order...

...and the sea, theology, physics, and ethics, and all the monuments of antiquity fall before it :. t The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard, and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edg*d with poplar pale, With flow'er-inwoven tresses torn The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets...

...Orac. c. \ 7. Edit. Hutten. This passage is also alluded to by Milton, in his Hymn on the Nativity. " The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard and loud lament." Dark was the night, and stillness reign'd around; When, from the shore, a more than mortal sound The...

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