 And human frailties, were forgotten quite: Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy; but this clay will sink Its spark immortal, envying it the light To which it mounts, as if to break the link That keeps us from yon heaven which...  Every Saturday - Page 1241872Full view - About this book
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...a brighter ray, And more belov'd existence. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 10. Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars Till he had peopled them with beings bright As their own beams. 11. — Immortal dreams, that could beguile The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle. BYRON'S Giaour,... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...a brighter ray, And more belov'd existence. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 10. Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars Till he had peopled them with beings bright As their own beams. 11. — Immortal dreams, that could beguile The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle. BYRON'S Giaour.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 pages
...would oft forsake For Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake. XIV. Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars, Till he had peopled them with beings...earth-born jars, And human frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy ; but this clay will sink Its spark... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 502 pages
...than the tome Of his land's tongne, which he wonld oft forsake For Natnre's pages glass'd by snnbeams on the lake. Like the Chaldean, he conld watch the...their own beams ; and earth, and earth-born jars, And hnman frailties, were forgotten qnite: Conld ha have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...he would oft forsake For Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake. Like the Chaldean, he could juman frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 pages
...would oft forsake For Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake. XIV. Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars, Till he had peopled them with beings...earth-born jars, And human frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy; but this clay will sink Its spark... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...he would oft forsake For Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake. Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars, Till he had peopled them with beings...earth-born jars, And human frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy ; but this clay will sink Its spark... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...would oft forsake For Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake. XIV. Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars, Till he had peopled them with beings...bright As their own beams ; and earth, and earth-born And human frailties, were forgotten quite : [jars, Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...would oft forsake For Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake. XIV. Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars, Till he had peopled them with beings...bright As their own beams ; and earth, and earth-born And human frailties, were forgotten quite : [jars, Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He... | |
 | 1855 - 548 pages
...loveliness thronging the bright orbs of heaven. " Like the Chaldean he can watch the stars, Till he has peopled them with beings bright As their own beams...and earth and earth-born jars, And human frailties ore forgotten quite." The social principle in humanity also cries out against him. Man is a gregarious... | |
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