 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 - 1865 - 834 pages
...truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upou the mountainous ruiui of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades,...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 - 744 pages
...overwinding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy archca suspended in the air. The bright blne sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening...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 - 854 pages
...ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright bine sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. The imagery which I have employed will be found, in many iustances to have been drawn from the operations... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1865 - 666 pages
...immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky BATHS OF CABACALLA. 139 of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.' Thicker than ever is the vegetation mantling these ruins, and masking the chasms that lurk treacherously... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 714 pages
...platforms and diiry arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of tke vigorous awakening of Spring in that divinest climate,...even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this dramx The imagery which I have- employeds will be found, in maay i«c'," been drawn from the operations... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 pages
...the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extending in overwinding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches...even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drams. The imagery which I have employed will be found, in many instances, to have been drawn from... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 448 pages
...ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense Elatforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The right blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. The imagery which I have employed will be ftrand, in many instances, to have been drawn from the operations... | |
 | Augustus John C. Hare - 1871 - 486 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...spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of the drama. " — Preface to the Prometheus. " Maintenant les murailles sont nues, sauf quelques fragments... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...air. The light blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the rigorous awakening of spring in that divincst climate, and the new life with which it drenches the...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.' The moral inspiration was the most sublime it is possible to conceive. 'Shelley believed that mankind... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 646 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...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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