 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 - 1911 - 708 pages
...impelled by Wte^i irest 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. The imagery which I have employed will be found, in many instances, to have been drawn from the operations... | |
 | 1903 - 318 pages
...blue sky of Rome and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that clivinest of climates, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits,...intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama." The modern bookman strives to learn as much as possible about his possessions, about their authors,... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 728 pages
...Melancholy! MILTON, II Penseroso, 12. 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. SHELLEY, Prom. Unb., Pref. All the northern downs | In clearest air ascending, showed far off 1 A surface... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1905 - 460 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. • ••••• Let this opportunity be conceded to me of acknowledging that I have, what a Scotch... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1905 - 502 pages
...and the effect of the vigorous awakening Spring in that diviuest climate, and the new life with [104] which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama. • ••••• Let this opportunity be conceded to me of acknowledging that I have, what a Scotch... | |
 | Algernon Graves - 1906 - 416 pages
...ruins of Rome. " This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the baths of Caracallas, among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous...drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspirations of this drama."— Shelley. 1846. 595 Lady Anne Beckett. 1846. 678 Mary, the sister of... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1907 - 458 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. Let this opportunity be conceded to me of acknowledging that I have, what a Scotch philosopher characteristically... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1908 - 194 pages
...the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches...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 - 1909 - 632 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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 948 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 202 instances, to have been drawn from the... | |
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