 | Amos Dean - Civilization - 1869 - 652 pages
...laws ; or whether like its sister, fiction, "it travels on lighter wings,1 scattering the seeds of its wild flowers imperceptibly over the world, till they...similarity in regions the most remotely divided." Some contend that poetry is destined to complete a certain cycle, or great revolution, accompanying... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...be traced ; but fiction travels on still lighter wings, and scatters the seeds of her wild-flowers in their birth (wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose * WAGE, LAYAMON, AND THE ORMULUM. The earliest Anglo-Norman translator is said to be Maister WACE,... | |
 | 1847 - 440 pages
...difficult enough to be traced, but tradition i;_v on still lighter wiugs, and scatters the seed of her iu.i flowers imperceptibly over the world, till they surprise...us by springing up with similarity in regions the mc*t remotely divided." And as no single country has given birth to them, §o neither has any one age.... | |
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Armorican theory of its origin can sufficiently account for all its materials. Many of them are classical, and others derived from the scriptures. The migrations of science are difficult enough to be traced; but Fiction travels on still lighter wings,... 
