| 1900 - 608 páginas
....intensity to the moments of fierce action. The splendid apostrophe to Greece in the ' Giaour ' — ' Clime of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain...mountain cave Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave,' has forty lines of unsurpassed beauty and fire, written in the manuscript, as a note tells us, in a... | |
| 1812 - 576 páginas
...Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away ! Spark of that flame — perchance of heavenly birth — Which gleams — but warms no more its cherish'd earth ! ' p. The Oriental costume is preserved, as might be expected, with admirable fidelity... | |
| 1813 - 716 páginas
...Expression's last receding pay, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of feeling past away! Spark of that flame — perchance of heavenly birth...gleams — but warms no more its cherished earth! The foim that streaks the courier's side, Seems gather'd from the ocean-tide: Though weary waves are... | |
| 1813 - 580 páginas
...tombExpression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away ! Spark of that flame — perchance of heavenly birth...gleams — but warms no more its cherished earth!'' One great defect in this protracted simile is this, that in the one subject the aspect of death and... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1813 - 90 páginas
...last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away ! 100 Spark of that flame — perchance of heavenly birth — Which gleams — but warms no more its cherish'd earth ! Far, dark, along the blue sea glancing, The shadows of the rocks advancing, Start... | |
| 1813 - 560 páginas
...Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away ! Spark of that flame — perchance of heavenly birth- — Which gleams — but warms no more its cherish'd earth !' pp. 4, 5. It is difficult not to sympathize with the sensibility which dictated... | |
| 1813 - 550 páginas
...Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away I Spark of that flame — perchance of heavenly birth — Which gleams — but warms no more its cherieh'd earth ! P. 3«— 5, The oriental costume is preserved, as might be expected, wilh admirable... | |
| 1814 - 680 páginas
...tombExpression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away ! Spark of that flame — perchance of heavenly birth—...Which gleams — but warms no more its cherished earth ! r). 3-5. The Oriental contume is preserved, as might be expected, with admirable fidelity, through... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 222 páginas
...last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away ! 100 Spark of that flame — perchance of heavenly birth — Which gleams — but warms no more its cherish'd earth. Clime of the unforgotten brave !— Whose land from plain to mountain-cave Was Freedom's... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - 228 páginas
...last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, 99 The farewell beam of Feeling past away ! Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth,...of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain to mountain-cave Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave ; 105 Shrine of the mighty ! can it be, That this... | |
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