And plants, at whose names the verse feels loath, Filled the place with a monstrous undergrowth, Prickly, and pulpous, and blistering, and blue, Livid, and starred with a lurid dew. The Edinburgh Review - Page 3361869Full view - About this book
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1834 - 888 pages
...hemlock dank, Stretched out its long and hollow shank, And stifled the air till the dead wind stank. Prickly, and pulpous, and blistering, and blue, Livid, and starred with a lurid dew. And agaries and fungi, with mildew and mould, Started like mist from the wet ground cold; !' d,-, fleshy,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...hemlock dank, Streteh'd out its long and hollow shank, And stifled the air nil the dead wind stank. And plants, at whose names the verse feels loath,...the place with a monstrous undergrowth, Prickly, and pulpoun, and blistering, and blue, Livid, and starred with a lurid dew. And agaries and fungi, with... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 396 pages
...hollow shank, And stifled the air till the dead wind stank. And plants, at whose names the verse feds loath, Filled the place with a monstrous undergrowth,...blistering, and blue, Livid, and starred with a lurid dew. Spawn, weeds, and filth, a leprous scum, Made the running rivulet thick and dumb, And at its outlet,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...plants, at whose names the verse feels loath, Filled the plaee with a monstrous undergrowth, Priekly, and pulpous, and blistering, and blue, Livid, and starred with a lurid dew. Spawn, weeds, and filth, a leprous seum, Made the running rivulet thiek and dumb, And at its outlet,... | |
| Robert Hogg - 1866 - 136 pages
...reminding us of Shelley's very unfavourable sketch of the Fungus tribe — " And plants at whose name the verse feels loath, Filled the place with a monstrous...cold ; Pale, fleshy, as if the decaying dead With the spirit of growth had been animated. " Their mass rotted off them flake by flake, Till the thick... | |
| 1852 - 510 pages
...horrible catalogue of Shelley's Sensitive Plant, — "Plants at whose name the verse feels loath, 1'rickly and pulpous and blistering and blue, Livid and starred with a lurid hue " ; — all these in turn attract us through their sympathy, or taunt us by their horrible mimicry... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...stifled the air till the dead wind stank. And plants, at whose names the verse feels loath, Fill'd the place with a monstrous undergrowth, Prickly, and pulpous, and blistering, and blue, Livid, and starr'd with a lurid dew. And agaries and fungi, with mildew and mould, Started like mist from the... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...stifled the air till the dead wind stank. And plants, at whose names the verse feels loath, Fill'd the place with a monstrous undergrowth, Prickly, and pulpous, and blistering, and blue, Livid, and starr'd with a lurid dew. And agaries and fungi, with mildew and mould, Started like mist from the... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...hemlock dank, Stretch'd out its long and hollow shank, And stifled the air till the dead wind stank. And plants, at whose names the verse feels loath,...fleshy, as if the decaying dead With a spirit of growth liad been animated ! Spawn, weeds, and filth, a leprous scum, Made the running rivulet thick and dumb,... | |
| University magazine - 1851 - 796 pages
...hemlock dank, Streteh'd out its long and hollow fihank, And stifled the air till the dead wind •tank. " And plants at whose names the verse feels loath. Filled...undergrowth, Prickly, and pulpous, and blistering, and bine, Livid and starred with a lurid dew. " And agarics and fnngi, with mildew and mould. Started like... | |
| |