 Hers is the loveliness 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 ray, A gilded halo hovering1 round decay, The farewell beam of feeling...  The Wellingtonian - Side 424af Wellington College - 1871Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1838 - 278 sider
...sky, and the wind howled and whistled fearfully in our rigging. Now, it is the stillness of death. " So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there." It is a monotony of beauty that wearies and depresses; there is no object to draw away attention, and... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1838 - 492 sider
...sky, and the wind howled and whistled fearfully in our rigging. Now, it is the stillness of death. " So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there," It is a monotony of beauty that wearies and depresses, there is no object to draw away attention, and... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 sider
...by death revealed ! 230 MODERN GREECE. Such is the aspect of this shore ; 'T is Greece, hut living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,...death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But heauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb, Expression's last receding ray,... | |
 | Marie-Louis-Jean-André-Charles Demartin du Tyrac comte de Marcellus - 1839 - 576 sider
...ch. xvn, v. iG CHAPIT. VINGT-TROISIÈME. CORIJNTHE. ARGOS. ÉGINE. (1820.) « T'is Greece, but living Greece no more ! « So coldly sweet, so deadly fair. ', We start, for soûl is wanting there. » BYRON'S, Giaour. C'est la Grèce , mais ce n'est plus la Grèce vivante... | |
 | Celia Levetus, Marion Moss - 1840 - 966 sider
...for a habitant of earth. She was, in the words of that splendid and unrivalled genius, Lord Byron, " So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there." Ephraim approached, and bending over the recumbent figure of his sister, murmured in a low voice the... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1841 - 78 sider
...beauty, which is still as bright as ever on the shores of Greece, seemed in the eye of the poet but as " The loveliness in death That parts not quite with...fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb, So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for life is wanting there." " 'Twas Greece, but living Greece... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 sider
...death reveal'd!(.T) Such is the aspect of this shore ; Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ¡(4) ead My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, U the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath But beauty with that fearful bloom,... | |
 | 1841 - 240 sider
...: it is a study — a glory. The beauty of Melrose, however, is not a healthful ordinary beauty — So coldly sweet, so deadly fair ; We start, for soul is wanting there ; Its is the loveliness of death, That parts not quite with parting breath, But beauty with that fearful... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 sider
...'Tis GREECK', but living Greece' ... no more' ! So coldly sweet*, so deadly fair', We starl*, . . . for SOUL' . . is wanting there*. Hers' . . is the...fearful bloom', That hue' . . which haunts it to the tumb*, Expression's last receding ray*, A gilded halo'., hovering round decay'. The farewell beam of... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 sider
...by death reveal'd ! 6 Such is the aspect of this shore ; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more 1 7 me', a a The guitar is the constant amusement of the Greek sailor by night : with a steady fair wind, and... | |
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