 | 1840 - 974 pages
...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 different... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...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 May be eclipsed,...appointed height they climb, And death is a low mist which eannot blot The brightness it may veil. When lofty thought Lifts a young heart above its mortal lair,... | |
 | 1840 - 528 pages
...waters like a thing of life." THE POETS OF ENGLAND WHO HAVE DIED YOUNG. NO. II.-PEUCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. " The splendours of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguish'd not , Like stars to their appointed height they climb, And death is a low mist which cannot... | |
 | 1842 - 504 pages
...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...of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguish'd not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb. And death is a low mist which cannot... | |
 | 1862 - 512 pages
...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...splendours of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but arc extinguish'd not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb, And death is a low mist which... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...likeness, as each mass may bear ; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts aud 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 appointed height they climb, And death is a low mist which... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...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...splendours of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but arc extinguished not ; Like stars to their appointed height they climb, And death is a low mist which... | |
 | 1872 - 918 pages
...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,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...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." It is evident that not even in this, the highest form of creed to which he ever clearly attained, is... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...may bear ; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the heavens' light. The splendours of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguish'd not : Like stars to their appointed height they climb, And death is a low mist which cannot... | |
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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... 
