| Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 380 páginas
...mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality. The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." The admirers of Shelley may naturally feel curious to know how a poem of such distinguished and unequivocal... | |
| Frederick Hinde - 1858 - 64 páginas
...of which piece sleeps calmly in the romantic and lonely cemetery of the Protestants at Rome : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are ; " and a passage, really endowed with wild and terrificgrandeur, in AIRD'S immortal poem, " The Demoniac,"... | |
| Henry Reed - 1858 - 424 páginas
...— " Adonais" as Shelley styled him — written about two years before, ended with this stanza — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...from the shore, far from the trembling throng, Whose saila were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly,... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 páginas
...stanza reaches a swell and grandeur, perhaps unequalled in any passage in which it has ever been used. " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...fearfully afar; Whilst burning through the inmost vail of heaven The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." And... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 414 páginas
...— " Adonais" as Shelley styled him — written about two years before, ended with this stanza — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; While burning through the inmost veil of heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the... | |
| 1861 - 336 páginas
...remained of where it had been,—who but will regard as a prophecy the last stanza of the Adonais ? ' The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends..." Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.'"] governors of Christ Church Castle. The SOUTH TRANSEPT is Early English, but has a Perpendicular arch,... | |
| T. C. Henley - 1861 - 160 páginas
...touchingly commemorates the death of his friend Keats, leaves the subject in the following verse : — " The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends...the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails are never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1862 - 470 páginas
...Flowers, ruins, statues, music, words are weak The glory they transfuse with fitting truth to speak. LIU. Why linger, why turn back, why shrink, my Heart? Thy...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. TO NIGHT. SWIFTLY walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night ! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1866 - 402 páginas
...driven over the sea. It enveloped them and leveral larger vessels in darkness. When the cloud passed The breath, whose might I have invoked in song, Descends...darkly, fearfully afar; Whilst burning through the ipmost veil of Heaven The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 páginas
...breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the land, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never...star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." It would be impossible to give an adequate idea of Gray's famous elegy by a short extract, but the... | |
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