As if to him it could impart 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 power ; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look, by death... The British review and London critical journal - Página 1361813Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 páginas
...so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed I Such is the aspect of this shore: 'T is Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet,...for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness of death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which... | |
| Andrew William Miller - 1884 - 112 páginas
...valley, and finally dies away in the dim distance ; as if even it must leave such utter solitude : — " So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, ' ' We start, for soul is wanting there ! After passing through the " Guia " Narrows we come to that part of the channel first surveyed by... | |
| Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 páginas
...dreads, yet dwells upon; Yes, but for these and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power; So fair, so...for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness of death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That bue which... | |
| Jacob Bright, Ursula (Mellor) Bright - 1885 - 408 páginas
...Giaour, where the poet, after speaking of the beauty which exists even in death, goes on to say — Such is the aspect of this shore ; Tis Greece, but...death — That parts not quite with parting breath. (Cheers.) These lines, with their context, seemed to me, when I stood upon the Acropolis in the year... | |
| 1885 - 686 páginas
...sealed, The first, last look by death revealed ! Such is the aspect of this shore ; Tis Greece, butliving Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,...for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness of death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 614 páginas
...Hugo. — Parisian. The Ride.— Mazeppa. Portrait of Ben Bunting. — The Island. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS. " Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly...deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there." — The Giaour. " Freedom's battle, once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 páginas
...Hugo. — Parisina. The Ride.— Mazeppa. Portrait of Ben Bunting. — The Island. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS. "Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly...deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there." — The Giaour. " Freedom's battle, once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled... | |
| 1844 - 666 páginas
...spiritual things, we grieve that the highest life should not glow in so fair a form. It is a form " So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there." We repeat, then, that in our view, the great difficulty with their theory is, that their religion is... | |
| Richard Rhodes - 1887 - 426 páginas
...doubt the tyrant's power; So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, The first, last look by death reveal'd! Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but...for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness injdeatli, That parts not qiiite, Vilh grafting breath; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue-which... | |
| J. Wass - 1888 - 40 páginas
...flattering symptoms of decay; not the beauty of summer, but the melancholy grace of autumn : — " So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there ; Its is the loneliness in death That parts not quite with parting breath, But beauty with that fearful... | |
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