 The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.  The University Magazine - Page 1531878Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 646 pages
...ancient Rome. The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. The genius of the lamented person to whose memory I have dedicated these unworthy verses, was rot less... | |
 | John Keats - 1874 - 320 pages
...ancient Rome. " The cemetery is an open space among the ruins covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. " The genius of the lamented person to whose memory I have dedicated these unworthy verses, was not... | |
 | 1909 - 738 pages
...Eternal City. This picturesque spot, which Shelley immortalizes in "Adonais," and of which he wrote : " It might make one in love with death to think that one should be buried in so sweet a spot," was destined to be his own final resting-place as well as that of his fellow-poet. It is situated... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1875 - 598 pages
...space among the ruins " (of ancient Rome), " corered in winter with violets and daisies ; " adding, " It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place." I have allowed myself to abridge the circumstances as reported by Mr. Trelawney and Mr. Hunt, partly... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...spot : " The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place." Within eighteen months, Shelley was laid beside his brother poet. We have already alluded to Shelley's... | |
 | 1876 - 340 pages
...near, on, for ever on — you may echo poor Shelley's thought of another last resting-place ; — " it might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place." * ROC. it, so there is nothing greater, for S?*ftiU». J||»ttoi'-§J'''Js^«'m<ra'soS than to minuter... | |
 | Paisley abbey - 1876 - 336 pages
...flowing near, on, for ever on—you may echo poor Shelley's thought of another last resting-place ;—." it might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place." ROBERT DE CROC. CERTAIN it is, that as nothing can better do it, so there is nothing greater, for which... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...long — violets and daisies mingling with the fresh herbage, and, in the words of Shelley, " making one in love with death to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place." Keats had a few days before his death expressed a wish to Mr Severn that on his gravestone should be... | |
 | Language - 1877 - 316 pages
...winter long, violets and daisies, mingled with fresh herbage, and, in the words of Shelley, ' ' making one in love with death to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place." The blossoms of the Pyrola, or Winter-green, so called because it keeps its foliage fresh and verdant... | |
 | 1889 - 1088 pages
...ancient Rome. The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in -winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death to think that one should be buried in BO sweet a place. A more charmingly romantic spot would be indeed hard to find. A low grassy trench... | |
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