Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its... A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Σελίδα 357επεξεργασία από - 1829Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| William Brockedon - 1834 - 380 σελίδες
...Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed,...scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien." Childe Harold, canto iv. st. 69-72. " I saw," says Lord Byron, " the ' Cascata del Marmore' of Terni... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1834 - 656 σελίδες
...beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits,* amidst the infernal surge, Like hope upon a death-betl, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn...scene, Love watching madness with unalterable mien. * Colonel Bouchette (who wrote after Lord Byron on this subject) observes that, according to the altitude... | |
| 1835 - 404 σελίδες
...Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like hope upon a death-bed,...scene, Love watching madness with unalterable mien." It were easy to enlarge, but we must desist. A reference therefore to Richardson and Burke, two of... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 σελίδες
...verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, (2) Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady...scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien. (1) I saw the " Cascata del marmore " of Terni twice, at different periods ; once from the summit of... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 σελίδες
...verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, (2) Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady...the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalttrublu mien. LXXIII. Once more upon the woody Apennin?, The infant Alps, which — had I not before... | |
| Robert Burford - 1837 - 100 σελίδες
...Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed,...serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn; Resembling1, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien." BYRON. THE... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 352 σελίδες
...heneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge,2 Like Hope upon a death-hed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, hears serene Its hrilliant hues with all their heams unshorn : Resemhling, 'mid the torture of the... | |
| William Beattie - 1838 - 336 σελίδες
...iris sits amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed ; and, unworn It steady dyes, whilst all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears...scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien." t In several of. the Highland districts, and particularly in that now under notice, the state of property,... | |
| Hobart Caunter - 1839 - 590 σελίδες
...side, beneath the glittering morn, An iris sits amidst the infernal surge, Like hope upon a death bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn...scene, Love watching madness with unalterable mien. Now all this is descriptive of the horrible, not of the sublime; and the great characteristic of a... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 336 σελίδες
...Horribly, beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed,...the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unaltered mien. The verdure occasioned by the eternal showers of spray, which fall to a considerable... | |
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