 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
 | Spectre - 1875 - 346 pages
...changed, As by the sickness of the soul ; " . . her thoughts Were combinations of disjointed things ; the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift ; What...utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too real ?' — BYEON. SKIMMING the Western seas, I soon was in the state cabin of the Viper, where Geraldine... | |
 | 1876 - 564 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 ! VIIL A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The Wanderer was alone, as heretofore ; The beings... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...spreads itself 'Twixt heaven and earth, like envy between man And man, — an everlasting mist. BYRON. Melancholy is a fearful gift : What is it but the...distance of its fantasies, And brings life near in utter darkness, Making the cold reality too real. BYRON. When dinner has opprest one, I think it is perhaps... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 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 ! A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The wanderer was alone as heretofore, The beings which... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 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 which... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...spreads itself 'Twixt heaven and earth, like envy between man And man, — an everlasting mist. BYRON. Melancholy is a fearful gift : What is it but the...distance of its fantasies, And brings life near in utter darkness, Making the cold reality too real. BYRON. When dinner has opprest one, I think it is perhaps... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...familiar were to hers. And this the world calls frenzy ; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and fresh and clear thy music doth surpass. Teach us,...panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus hymen ! A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The wanderer was alone as heretofore, The beings which... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 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...fantasies, And brings life near in utter nakedness, * m Making the cold reality too real ! VIII. A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The Wanderer... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift ; What is it hut ny — nor, greater than all these, The innate tortures of that deep de hrings life near in utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too real ! VirI. A change came o'er the... | |
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