This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled ; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness — And mind and dust — and passions and... Macmillan's Magazine - Page 3081869Full view - About this book
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 530 pages
...repeat the mournful regret of the good abbot over the sins of Manfred : " This should have been a nohle creature : he Hath all the energy which would have...and pure thoughts, Mixed, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive." ART. IV. — Proclamations of His Excellency Sir Charles Theophilus... | |
| G. A. Perdicaris - 1845 - 336 pages
...from the trammels of civilized life, or could he bend his will to the circumstances of the times ; for he " Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly...darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thought, Mixed and contending, without end or order, All dormant or destructive."* * Since the above... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 540 pages
...itself can do is to repeat the mournful regret of the good abbot over the sins of Manfred : " Thi- should have been a noble creature : he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame ot glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled ; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light nnd darkness... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...shunning at this time AU further colloquy — and so — farewell. [Exit MANFRED. ABBOT. This should hare een muid and dust — and passions and pure thoughts, Mu'd and contending without end or order, All dormant... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1846 - 818 pages
...that should have been, as the abbot of St. Maurice says of Manfred, " a noble creature, he that had all the energy which would have made a goodly frame of glorious elements, might, from their not being wisely mingled or properly directed, become an awful chaos — light and... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...MANFRED. Abbot. This should have been a noble creature : Hath all the energy which would have made [(3)he A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled ; as il is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness — \ndmind and dust — and passions and pure thoughts... | |
| 1847 - 592 pages
...from the trammels of civilized life, or could he bend his will to the circumstances of the times ; for he " Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly...darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thought, Mixed and contending, without end or order, All dormant or destructive."* * Since the above... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 356 pages
...of his soul. He takes the world, and all that it inherit, for his arena and his spectators; and he A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been...And mind and dust — and passions and pure thoughts Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive : he will perish, And yet he... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...than me, in shunning at this time All further colloquy — and so — farewell. * [Exit MANFBED. Abb. This should have been a noble creature ' : he Hath all the energy which would have mode A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled ; as it Is, It is an awful chaos... | |
| Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 pages
...that loves to hear himself talk, and will say more in a minute, than he will stand to in a month. 36. This should have been a noble creature ; he Hath all...and pure thoughts Mixed, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive : he will perish, And yet he must not ; — such are worth redemption... | |
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