 Of others' sight familiar were to hers. And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift; What is it but the telescope of truth? Which strips the distance of its fantasies, And brings...  The Quarterly Review - Page 220edited by - 1918Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...familiar were to hers. And this the world calls frenzy ; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift ; What...utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too real ! VIII. A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The Wanderer was alone as heretofore, The beings... | |
 | Eunice True Daniels - 1843 - 196 pages
...Him Who heareth the young ravens when they cry, And the wind tempereth to the shorn lamb. AUTUMN. " The glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift! What is it but the telescope of truth, That brings life near in utter nakedness ?" 'Tis past!—the sunny hour Of Nature's quiet beauty, when... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843 - 554 pages
...to which our nature is liable, describes the " glance of melancholy" as " a fearful gift" " What if it but the telescope of truth Which strips the distance of its phantasies. And brings life near in utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too reall" When melancholy... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...familiar were to hers, And this the world calls frenzy ! but the wise Have a far deeper madness ; and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift : What...utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too real ! A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The wanderer was alone as heretofore ; The beings that... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - 1845 - 438 pages
...uftarfnl gift: What is It. 1- .1 the telescope of tr*th 1 Which itrip* the distance of Its phantasies, And brings life near— in utter nakedness, Making the cold reality— too real ! Moody and dull melancholy, JCintman to frief And comfortless despair. makes the mam, and tcant of... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 196 pages
...fearful gift." " What is it but the telescope of truth Which strips the distance of its phantasies, And brings life near in utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too reall" When melancholy takes possession of the soul, we lose as it were the perspective of our mental... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...familiar were to hers, And this the world calls frenzy ! hut the wise Have a far deeper madness ; and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift : What...utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too real ! A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The wanderer was alone as heretofore ; The beings that... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1847 - 538 pages
...fearful gift" " What i> it hut the telescope of truth Which strip* the distance of it* phanttui«, And brings life near in utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too real ?" When melancholy takes possession of the soul, we lose as it were the perspective of our mental vision.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift; Wh-it is but the telescope of truth ? Which strips the distance...utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too real ! A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The Wanderer was alone as heretofore. The beings which... | |
 | 1853 - 842 pages
...fearful gift — What is it hut a telescope of Irutli, Which strips the distance of its phantasies, And brings life near in utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too ruai ?" We suppose the poet to be destitute of the hopes of immortality, and a stranger to the consolations... | |
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