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" the world and its mysterious doom "Is not so much more glorious than it was, That I desire to worship those who drew New figures on its false and fragile glass "As the old faded. "
Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Page 83
by Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1824 - 415 pages
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1926 - 758 pages
...tears, nor infamy, nor now the tomb Could temper to its object."—"Let them pass," I cried, "the woild and its mysterious doom " Is not so much more glorious than it "As the old faded."-—"Figures ever new Rise on the bubble, paint them as you may; We have but thrown,...
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The Narrative Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 2

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1927 - 336 pages
...tears, nor infamy, nor now the tomb Could temper to its object.' — 'Let them pass,' I cried, 'the world and its mysterious doom ' Is not so much more...as those before us threw, ' Our shadows on it as it passed away. But mark how chained to the triumphal chair The mighty phantoms of an elder day; ' All...
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Essays and Studies, Volume 4

English Association - 1913 - 196 pages
...highway of the life Which we all tread, a cavern huge and great. In the Triumph of Life he says — Figures ever new Rise on the bubble, paint them as...thrown as those before us threw Our shadows on it as it passed away. 1 Phaedrus. a Prometheus Unboimd. 3 Adonais. Again, in Hellas he speaks of a joy which...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...GTBS-P; HAP; InPS; InvP; LiTB, NAEL-2; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-2; OBEY; OBNC; OHFP; PBBP; PoLF; TEP; TrGrPo 81 . Time POETRY QUOTATIONS 82 'All that is mortal of great Plato there Expiates the joy and woe his master...
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The Selected Poetry & Prose of Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 pages
...'Nor tears, nor infamy, nor now the tomb Could temper to its object.' - 'Let them pass,' I cried, 'the world and its mysterious doom 'Is not so much more...may; We have but thrown as those before us threw, 250 'Our shadows on it as it past away. But mark how chained to the triumphal chair The mighty phantoms...
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The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism

Forest Pyle - 1995 - 240 pages
...distorting glass, he is instructed by Rousseau: Figures ever new Rase on the bubble, paint them how you may; We have but thrown, as those before us threw, Our shadows on it as it past away. (11. 248-51) In his account of the figural writing on the glass, Rousseau asserts the inevitable intertwining...
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The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery

Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pages
...to strike a disdainful pose, the Rousseau figure rebukes him: "Let them pass" — I cried — "the world and its mysterious doom Is not so much more...— "Figures ever new Rise on the bubble, paint them how you may; We have but thrown, as those before us threw, Our shadows on it as it past away." (243—5i)...
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Mimesis and Its Romantic Reflections

Frederick Burwick - 2010 - 218 pages
...the poet history's glorious conquerors now "chained to the cat." "Let them pass," the poet cries out, That I desire to worship those who drew New figures on its false and fragile glass As the old faded. (Triumph of Life, 244-48) To this skepticism, the wizened Rousseau adds the grim moral that not only...
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Deconstruction: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume 2

Jonathan D. Culler - 2003 - 424 pages
...Life: Figures ever new Rise on the bubble [of the phenomenal and historical world], paint them how you may; We have but thrown, as those before us threw. Our shadows on it as it past away. (11.248-51) The "deconstruction" of metaphysics by an appeal to the figurative nature of language always,...
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Deconstrucción y crítica

2003 - 254 pages
...of Life: Figures evernew Riseon thebubble [ofthe phenomenal and historical woñd],paint them howyou may; We have but thrown, as those before us threw, Our shadows on it as itpast away. [líneas 248-251] [Figuras siempre nuevas Se levantan en la burbuja [del mundo fenomenal...
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