The fountains of divine philosophy Fled not his thirsting lips, and all of great, Or good, or lovely, which the sacred past In truth or fable consecrates, he felt And knew. The Metropolitan - Page 3761835Full view - About this book
| 1836 - 676 pages
...soldier, musing, hears the village bell, A CHAPTER ON IGNORANCE. ВТ ONE JUST OPENING HIS EYES. ' Every sight And sound from the vast earth and ambient air, Sent to his heart it8 choicest impulsee.1 SHELLEY. To ONE accustomed to look at Nature with an observant eye, the indifference... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...eeased to burn, And Silenee too, enamoured of that voiee, Locks its mute music in her rugged eell. By solemn vision and bright silver dream, His infancy...nurtured. Every sight And sound from the vast earth and amhient air, Sent to his heart its choieest impulses. The fountains of divine philosophy Fled not his... | |
| 1840 - 368 pages
...ceased to burn, And Silence, too enamour'd of that voice, Locks its mute music in her rugged cell. By solemn vision and bright silver dream His infancy...philosophy Fled not his thirsting lips ; and all of great, VOL. II.— 0 Or good, or lovely, which the sacred past In truth or fable consecrates, he felt And... | |
| 1840 - 378 pages
...ceased to burn, And Silence, too enamour'd of that voice, Locks its mute music in her rugged cell. By solemn vision and bright silver dream His infancy...choicest impulses. The fountains of divine philosophy Pled not his thirsting lips ; and all of great, VOL. II.— O Or good, or lovely, which the sacred... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...voiee, Loeks its mute musie in her rugged eell. By solemn vision and bright silver dream, His infaney was nurtured. Every sight And sound from the vast earth and ambient air, Sent to his heart its ehoieest impulses. The fountains of divine philosophy Fled not his thirsting lips ; and all of great,... | |
| 1841 - 540 pages
...deeply impressed by those natural beauties among which he dwelt and dreamed. Like his own Alastor, " By solemn vision and bright silver dream His infancy...ambient Air, Sent to his heart its choicest impulses." His education, if we mean by the word the instruction of the schools, was received at Eton and Oxford... | |
| 1841 - 406 pages
...home," where the flames of devotion had never glowed, " to seek strange truths in undiscovered lands;" " Every sight And sound from the vast earth and ambient...choicest impulses. The fountains of divine philosophy Fed not his thirsting lips ; and all of great Or good or lovely, which the sacred past In truth or... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...ceased to burn, And silence, too enamour'd of that voice, Locks its mute music in her rugged cell. By solemn vision, and bright silver dream, His infancy...divine philosophy Fled not his thirsting lips, and nil of great, Or good, or lovely, which the sacred past In truth, or fable consecrates, he felt And... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...generous — no lone bard Breath'd o'er his dark fate one melodious sigh — He lived, he died, he sang, in solitude. By solemn vision, and bright silver dream...sound, from the vast earth and ambient air, Sent to bis heart its choicest impulses ; The fountains of divine philosophy Fled not his thirsting lips, and... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1847 - 368 pages
...sehneu. — GÖTHE. RANTHORPE. CHAPTER I. THE THREE STUDENTS. By solemn vision and bright silver stream His infancy was nurtured. Every sight And sound from the vast earth and ambient air Sent to his heart the choicest impulses. SHELLEY. IT was a cold November night. Holborn was noisy, murky, and sloppy.... | |
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