Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But beauty with that fearful bloom,... The Quarterly Review - Página 3321813Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1821 - 712 páginas
...the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, ite. See the rest of this beautiful passage, »s far as Such is the aspect of this shore, Tis Greece, but living Greece no more. Giaour, 67. Mrs. Radclijfe. — Beyond Milan the country wore the aspect of a ruder devastation ; and... | |
| 680 páginas
...smile ! the smile of death, BO meaningless, passionless, and chilling, pierced me to the quick : " So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there." Her condition was indeed deplorable in the extreme. As soon as possible we embarked for Dover ; the... | |
| 1812 - 576 páginas
...but for that chill changeless brow, Whose touch thrills with mortality, And curdles to the gazer's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads,...deadly fair, We start — for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful... | |
| 1813 - 662 páginas
...tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek» And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not — wins not — weeps not — now—...deadly fair, We start — for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath.' pp. 4- — 6. The plunging... | |
| 1813 - 716 páginas
...The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon— Yes — but for these and these alone, Some moments — ay — one treacherous hour He still might doubt the tyrant's...deadly fair, . We start — for soul is wanting there. Her) ia the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breatli; But beauty with that fearful... | |
| 1813 - 550 páginas
...treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power, So fair — so calm — so softly scal'd The first — last look — by death reveal'd ! Such...in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb — Expression's last receding... | |
| 1813 - 566 páginas
...power, So fair — so calm — so softly seal'd The first — last look — by death reveal'd ! Sucli is the aspect of this shore — 'Tis Greece — but...in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tombExpression's last receding... | |
| 1813 - 552 páginas
...— so calm — so softfy seal'd The first — last look — by death reveal'd! Such is the aspect ot this shore — 'Tis Greece — but living Greece no...in death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tombExpression's last receding... | |
| 1813 - 580 páginas
...power. So fair — so calm — so softly sealed The first — last look — by death revealed ! '< Such is the aspect of this shore — . 'Tis Greece...deadly fair, We start — for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But beauty with that fearful... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1813 - 90 páginas
...a few hours after " the spirit is not there." It is to be reSuch is the aspect of this shore — 90 'Tis Greece — but living Greece no more! So coldly...deadly fair, We start — for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; 95 But beauty with that... | |
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