 His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there All new successions to the forms they wear ; Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear ; And bursting...  Select Poems of Shelley - Page 264by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 387 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 pages
..., Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its night To its own likeness, as each mass may bear : And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light. The splendours of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not: Like stars to their... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 460 pages
...hear : And bursting in its beauty aud its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light. The splendours of the firmament of time May be eclipsed,...: Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil. When lofty thought Lifts a young... | |
 | 1840 - 974 pages
...; Torturing the unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness as each mass may bear ; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light." The poems which Shelley published with the view of recommending political or moral doctrines are so... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...may bear ; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heavens' light. XLIV. The splendours of the firmament of time...: Like stars to their appointed height they climb, And death is a low mist which eannot blot The brightness it may veil. When lofty thought Lifts a young... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 396 pages
...From trees and beasts and men into the Heavens' light. XilV. The splendours of the firmament of tune May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not : Like stars to their appointed height they climb, And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil. When lofty thought Lifts a young... | |
 | 1862 - 512 pages
...wear; Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light. The splendours of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but arc extinguish'd not; Like stars to their... | |
 | 1843 - 402 pages
...K. to Q. second AND WHITE RESIGNED. 368 THE BATTLES OF M'DONNELL DE LA BOURDONNAIS. " The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed — but are...Like stars, to their appointed height they climb, And death is a low mist, which cannot blot The brightness it may veil." SHELLEY. ALL the world —... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...wear; Torturing the unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear ; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men, into the Heaven's light. The splendours of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but arc extinguished not ; Like stars to their... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...[there Torturing th'unwilling dross tliat checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear ; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heavens' light. acLiv. The splendours of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished... | |
 | 1872 - 918 pages
...wear. Torturing the unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, us each mass may bear. And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men, into the Heaven's light." Art. LXXXIII. — Failures.— By WC COOPER, MD, Indianapolis, Indiana. Dr. HW Taylor, of Crawfordsville,... | |
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