 A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour...  Littell's Living Age - Page 671848Full view - About this book
 | 1878 - 732 pages
...were more applicable than to himself ; one who " Had gazed on nature's uaked loreliness, Actseon-like, and now he fled astray, With feeble steps, o'er the...like raging hounds, their father and their prey." De Quincey was told, with sombre eloquence, of Lloyd's escape after some years of confinement, and... | |
 | William Francis Ainsworth - 1878 - 738 pages
...were more applicable than to himself ; one who " Had gazed on nature's naked loveliness, Actseon-like, and now he fled astray, With feeble steps, o'er the...like raging hounds, their father and their prey." De Quincey was told, with sombre eloquence, of Lloyd's escape after some years of confinement, and... | |
 | Edward John Trelawny - 1878 - 260 pages
...storm, Whose thunder is its knell. He, as I guess, Had gazed on nature's naked loveliness Actseon-like ; and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. He came the last, neglected and apart, A herd-abandoned deer struck by the hunter's dart All stood... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1878 - 632 pages
...thunder is its knell. He, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness Actaeon-like ; and nous he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's...Pursued like raging hounds their father and their prey. 32. A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation masked — a power Girt round with... | |
 | W. F. March Phillipps - 1879 - 384 pages
...Whose thunder is its knell. He, as I guess, S Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness Actaeon like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour. It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow ; even whilst we speak Is it not broken ? On the... | |
 | Norman O. Brown - 2023 - 216 pages
...storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. Shelley, Adonais, XXXI. The passion of the poet is his poetry. His own thoughts pursue their father... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1992 - 196 pages
...so quotable a sentence would follow me through life as Shelley tells us his thoughts followed him: And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. The sentence in question was provoked by a personal experience. My old teacher and master, Irving Babbitt,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 pages
...storm, Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-Iike, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...Pursued like raging hounds their father and their prey. The allusion is probably to Shelley himself. LATONA AND THE RUSTICS Some thought the goddess in this... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like,265 and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. 32 A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift - 280 A Love in desolation masked; - a Power Girt round with... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - 1995 - 234 pages
...storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. (st. 31) Whereas earlier the thoughts of Adonais were said to mourn their father (st. 14), now mental... | |
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