 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...from these ; I am now arrived at an Iliad of woes : for I have now to record THE PAINS OF OPIUM ... as the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. 4 Ring out the old, ring in Shelley's Revolt of Islam (V. 23). I now pass to what is the main subject of these latter confessions,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1927 - 372 pages
...pale and wan, But on her forehead, and within her eye Lay beauty, which makes hearts that feed thereon Sick with excess of sweetness ; on the throne She...His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. 24 She stood beside him like a rainbow braided Within some storm, when scarce its shadows vast From... | |
 | James Alexander Kerr Thomson - 1927 - 262 pages
...because of that restraint which expresses the Irony of his mind. Tacitus, on the other hand, writes ' with hue like that when some great painter dips his pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.' There is exaggeration in him, but it is the exaggeration of art. It is, as it were, the apocalypse... | |
 | English Association - 1913 - 196 pages
...ruin have been made their food From infancy — ill has become their good.4 He describes the king : the King, with gathered brow, and lips Wreathed by...painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.1 The tyrant is also full of treachery, and, even after he has sworn peace with the rebels,... | |
 | 1888 - 616 pages
...with a smile on her lips, flashed this inner meaning on her ; here was life as fit for the brush as when ' ' some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipso." The first result of these studies was " The Umbrella," the picture of a girl of twelve in... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. 10706 'The Revolt of Islam With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. 10707 To a Skylark' Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it,... | |
 | Tim Bragg - 2005 - 242 pages
...unfortunately was born at the wrong end of time, and I have to live backwards from in front. " (White) "With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. " (Shelley) The doctor steps gingerly across the mown lawn. The garden is perfect. There are shaded... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1892 - 652 pages
...the ail vent of the new Government, while Conservatives would have seen in the sulphurous mirk " A hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse," a grim presage of woe to come. But sciencehas paralysed that kind of imagination, and the Gladstonians... | |
 | John Wilson, Carrie Thompson Lowell - 1928 - 262 pages
...and then a slight shiver about Comrie, she never had an earthquake. North. Shelley says grandly, "As when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. " I forget whether the word is earthquake or thunder. Shepherd. An' it's nae great maitter. North.... | |
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But on her forehead and within her eye Lay beauty, which makes hearts that feed thereon Sick with excess of sweetness; — on the throne She leaned. The King, with gathered brow and lips Wreathed by long scorn, did inly sneer and frown With hue like that... 
