 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 - 1874 - 584 pages
...Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divincat climate, and the new lifo with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of tlii« drama. The imagery which I have employed will be found, in many instances, to have been drawn... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1875 - 504 pages
...Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new Hfe^with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of the drama."—Preface to t/ie Prometheus. "Maintenant les murailles sont nues, sauf quelques fragments... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1888 - 540 pages
...the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extending in ever- winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches...intoxication were the inspiration of this drama.' The character of Shelley is one of strange contrasts, and a thoughtful reader of his life will be continually... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 pages
...precipice. This you ascend, 1 In his preface to " Prometheus Unbound," Shelley says: "This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." See p. 715. and arrive on the summit of these piles. There grow on every side thick entangled wildernesses... | |
 | 1878 - 800 pages
...— " chiefly [as he has recorded] upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla [in Rome], among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." "TheCeuci," the only completed dramatic work which Shelley produced of the ordinary — or, as we might... | |
 | 1878 - 794 pages
...— " chiefly [as he has recorded] upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla [in Rome], among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous...intoxication, were the inspiration, of this drama." "TheCenci," the only completed dramatic work which Shelley produced of the ordinary —or, as we might... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1878 - 236 pages
...air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that delicious climate, and the new life with which it drenches the...spirits, even to intoxication, were the inspiration of the drama." As in the Colosseum and on the Palat: -e, the extensive excavations carried on amongst... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divincst climate, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to inspiration, were the inspiration of this drama.' No change of scene, however, could permanently affect... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 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...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 - 1880 - 458 pages
...of Eome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the newlife with which it drenches the spirits even to 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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