 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 - 1880 - 660 pages
...the efttct of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which i'. drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. The im.igery which I have employed will be found, in many instances, to haw been drawn from the operations... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1881 - 478 pages
...impelled by the purest andjhe truest motives if to the best and noblest ends. P This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. ^' Thcimagery which I have employed will be found, injnanvjnstances, to have been drawn from the operations... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1881 - 474 pages
...nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. indeed more than any other poet, and with greater success. But the Greek poets, as writers to whom... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1885 - 474 pages
...and noblest ends. This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of CaracaUa, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous...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... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1883 - 638 pages
...completeness because of their connection with succeeding phases of thought. Elsewhere Shelley speaks of the " bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the...which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication;" and it was this vigorous awakening which he contrasted with the eternal unresponsiveness of his friend.... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1886 - 616 pages
...spoken more truly and happily of the poem than any of his critics. " The blue sky of Rome," he writes, " and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." These, passing from the senses to the poet's spirit in sense. By April 6, the third act of " Prometheus... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1887 - 620 pages
...blue sky of Rome," he writes, " and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that diviuest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." These, passing from the senses to the poet's spirit in sense. quility, were attainable in Italy, and... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1887 - 232 pages
...blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest of climates, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. Shelley while an Oxford student was a voracious reader; he read at all times,—even while walking... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 520 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, ja_ many instances, IbT1ave been drawn from the operations... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892 - 252 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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