 As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power ; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look, by death...  The British Review, and London Critical Journal - Page 1381813Full view - About this book
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...is to say — .Such fas the ' office' of this place, But it hu got the coup de grace. . . * * * * " Such is the aspect of this shore, " Tis Greece— but living Greece no more." This is the " house" that Doctor Faustus and his friend built — and Palmerston " pulled up." From... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1838 - 278 pages
...sky, and the wind howled and whistled fearfully in our rigging. Now, it is the stillness of death. " So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there." It is a monotony of beauty that wearies and depresses; there is no object to draw away attention, and... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1838 - 492 pages
...sky, and the wind howled and whistled fearfully in our rigging. Now, it is the stillness of death. " So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there," It is a monotony of beauty that wearies and depresses, there is no object to draw away attention, and... | |
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...civitatem. Actes des Apôtres, ch. xvn, v. iG CHAPIT. VINGT-TROISIÈME. CORIJNTHE. ARGOS. ÉGINE. (1820.) « T'is Greece, but living Greece no more ! « So coldly sweet, so deadly fair. ', We start, for soûl is wanting there. » BYRON'S, Giaour. C'est la Grèce , mais ce n'est plus la Grèce vivante... | |
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...calm*, so softly sealed', The first', last look by death revealed*: SUCH is the aspect of this shdre* ; 'Tis GREECE', but living Greece' ... no more* ! So coldly sweet*, so deadly fair', We star?, ... for sotn.' . . is wanting there*. Hers' . . is the loveliness in death', That parts not... | |
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...to say — Such WHS the ' office' of this place, But it has got the coup de grace. * * * * " Such ii the aspect of this shore, " Tis Greece— but living Greece no more." This is the " house" that Doctor Fattstus and his friend built — and. Palmerston " pulled up." From... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 pages
...and added, after much rather unintelligible rhodomontade, which has been excessively admired : — " Such is the aspect of this shore. "Tis Greece, but living Greece no more." But this sublime tranquillity which ruined Greece wore for upwards of a thousand years, while the soul... | |
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...for a habitant of earth. She was, in the words of that splendid and unrivalled genius, Lord Byron, " So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there." Ephraim approached, and bending over the recumbent figure of his sister, murmured in a low voice the... | |
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...the tyrant's power; So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, The first, last look by death reveal'd!(.T) 'd rock and broken bush ; 1 saw the white-wall'd ¡(4) So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers U the loveliness in... | |
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...: it is a study — a glory. The beauty of Melrose, however, is not a healthful ordinary beauty — So coldly sweet, so deadly fair ; We start, for soul is wanting there ; Its is the loveliness of death, That parts not quite with parting breath, But beauty with that fearful... | |
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