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 392edited by - 1869Full view - About this book
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1870 - 500 pages
...whatever be Their earthly errors," He answers, " It is too late." Then the old abbot soliloquizes : — " This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all...and pure thoughts, Mixed, and contending without end or order." The world can easily see, in Moore's Biography, what, after this, was the course of Lord... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1870 - 770 pages
...than me, in shunning at this time All furl her colloquy— and so— farewell. \Exit MANFRED. Abtot. lessedness Consists in slavery — no. Adah. I have...should be a cherub — since he loves not. Lucifer. iftx'd, and contending without end or order — Alt dormant or destructive : he will perish, and yet... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1870 - 352 pages
...whatever be Their earthly errors,' He 'answers, " It is too late.' Then the old abbot soliloquises : — ' This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all the energy which would have mad« A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled ; as it is, It is an awful... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...so—farewell. Man. • Old man ! I do respetó \Kxit MANST.KS Abbot, This should have been a noblo creature; ha Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly...of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled j as it is, It is an awful chaos—light and darkness— And mind and dust—and passions and pure... | |
| William Blake - 1915 - 104 pages
...long passages of rare and achieved beauty. ... In single passages Blake is the peer of X ^^I^^Ms: Of This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all...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 must... | |
| Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 pages
...inextricably mingled with his poetry, and in Manfred he unconsciously passed judgment upon both: — This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all...is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And wind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts Mix'd, and contending without end or order. PERCY BYSSHE... | |
| Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1917 - 518 pages
...grammar, have told heavily against Byron as a poet. His own lines in Manfred best sum up the man himself : This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all...And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts Mix'd and contending without end or order. Shelley. — While Wordsworth and Scott were upholding the... | |
| Henry Sloane Coffin - 1918 - 184 pages
...Byron's poem says of Manfred: This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which should 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 pure thoughts, Mixed and contending... | |
| Henry Sloane Coffin - 1918 - 240 pages
...man, but the inward adjustment of each man to himself. The abbot in Byron's poem says of Manfred : — This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all the energy which should have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled ; as it is, It is... | |
| Arturo Farinelli - 1921 - 96 pages
...Così — entro un caos di luce e di ombra, « an awful chaos », doveva agitarsi il suo Manfred, « and mind and dust — and passions and pure thoughts — mixed, and contending without end or order, — ali dormant or destructive ». Ogni festa byroniana passava all'orgia e matavasi in lutto.... | |
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