This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended... Littell's Living Age - Page 661848Full view - About this book
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...impelled by tile purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of...it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were tlie inspiration of this drama. The imagery which I have employed wil! be found, in many instances,... | |
| 1852 - 318 pages
...he wrote his notable classic drama of " Promethens Unbound." " This рoera," he says, " was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." The title sufficiently explains the subject ; it is the image of the old Titan waning with oppression,... | |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1854 - 288 pages
...Eome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate, and the new life in which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." I did not partake of these physical advantages ; for I visited the spot in sultry autumn, and did not... | |
| 1856 - 754 pages
...labyrinths upon its immense platforms, and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright, blue sky of Home, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." The title sufficiently explains the subject ; it is the image of tho old Titan warring with oppression,... | |
| Octavian Blewitt - 1856 - 428 pages
...arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Borne, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life...spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of the drama." The ruins on either side of the quadrangle formed by the baths were, towards the Via Appia,... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 612 pages
...arches suspended in the »ir. The bright hlue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life...spirits, even to intoxication, were the inspiration of the drama." The rich treasures of art which have been, from time to time, exhumed from these ruins,... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 586 pages
...arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life...which it drenches the spirits, even to intoxication, veré the inspiration oí the drama." The rich treasures of art which have been, from time to time,... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...composed, without writing a word . of it, while he was at work, with other shoemakers, in a garret. odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." Shelley, while an Oxford student, read at all times — at table, in bed, and while walking. He read... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1862 - 480 pages
...This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the fl«wery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees,...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. The imagery which I have employed will be found, in many instances to have been drawn from the operations... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 366 pages
...labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright bine sky of Koine, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. The imagery which I have employed will be found, in many instances to have been drawn from the operations... | |
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