Memorials of a Tour in Some Parts of Greece: Chiefly PoeticalE. Moxon, 1834 - 167 sider |
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... past on the occasion , but I have forgot the prudence which coun- selled in vain . The observations in these pages only extend over some parts of Greece ; " the political state of the country and my own want of time would not allow me ...
... past on the occasion , but I have forgot the prudence which coun- selled in vain . The observations in these pages only extend over some parts of Greece ; " the political state of the country and my own want of time would not allow me ...
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... Past over it , that past not back again . The long - horned herds enjoy the cool delight , Sleeping half - merged , to shun the deep sun - glow , Which , that May - morning * , dazed the Roman sight , But fell innocuous on the subtler ...
... Past over it , that past not back again . The long - horned herds enjoy the cool delight , Sleeping half - merged , to shun the deep sun - glow , Which , that May - morning * , dazed the Roman sight , But fell innocuous on the subtler ...
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... past lies upon both , not equally dark , but always a shadow . The host of the inn at Otranto told me , that " he was per- fectly aware of the important part the ' Castle ' of that town played in English history ; " the merest fictions ...
... past lies upon both , not equally dark , but always a shadow . The host of the inn at Otranto told me , that " he was per- fectly aware of the important part the ' Castle ' of that town played in English history ; " the merest fictions ...
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... past by the spot , and feeling as I do at this moment left it unvisited : - " Be Yarrow stream , unseen , unknown , — It must , or we shall rue it , - We have a vision of our own , Ah ! why should we undo it ? " The apple is hanging ...
... past by the spot , and feeling as I do at this moment left it unvisited : - " Be Yarrow stream , unseen , unknown , — It must , or we shall rue it , - We have a vision of our own , Ah ! why should we undo it ? " The apple is hanging ...
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... past like living fire , never left the smoke of London till he went away to die ; Keats could have learnt nothing more by gazing on Athens , and bathing his feet in the Ægean ; he would perhaps , however , have lost nothing , nor feared ...
... past like living fire , never left the smoke of London till he went away to die ; Keats could have learnt nothing more by gazing on Athens , and bathing his feet in the Ægean ; he would perhaps , however , have lost nothing , nor feared ...
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Memorials of a Tour in Some Parts of Greece: Chiefly Poetical Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1834 |
Memorials of a Tour in Some Parts of Greece: Chiefly Poetical Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1834 |
Memorials of a Tour in Some Parts of Greece: Chiefly Poetical Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1834 |
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Acropolis Alì Pacha antient Athenian Athens awful bear beauty bright calm character clear cliffs close common dark deep delight desolate district earth edifices Epirus existence eyes faith fancy fate fear feel gazed glory Gods Gothic architecture Grecian Greece Greek ground hand heart Herodotus Hieron hills Homer human imagination immense inscription Iolcos island Kalabaka klepht land Larisa light Livy look Marathon memory moral mountain nation nature never objects Parthenon pass passion Pausanias peace peculiar PELASGIAN Pelasgus Peneus perfect perhaps peribolus Pharsalia plain platans poet poetical political Pouqueville repose rest rock Roman ruins scene seems shade shame shore side Sir William Gell song spirit stone Strabo strange sublime Suli Suliot Tempe temple Thessaly Thine thing Thou thought town travellers truth Turkish vale village voice Volo wall whole wonder τὸ
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Side 28 - There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass ; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes ; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.
Side 6 - Be Yarrow stream unseen, unknown, It must, or we shall rue it, We have a vision of our own, Ah ! why should we undo it ? The treasured dreams of times long past, We'll keep them, ' winsome Marrow,' For when we're there, although 'tis fair, 'Twill be another Yarrow.
Side 137 - GREEK RELIGION. COULD we, though but for an hour, burst through those gates adamantine, Which, as the children of men pass onward in swift generation, Time's dark cavern along, are heavily closing behind them ! Could we but breathe the delight of the time when, fresh in his boyhood, Out of his own exuberant life, Man gave unto Nature, And new senses awoke, through every nerve of creation ! Waves of the old...
Side 142 - ... with a curious pleasure. Thou art become, oh Echo ! a voice, an inanimate image ; Where is the palest of maids, dark-tressed, dark-wreathed with ivy, Who with her lips half-opened, and gazes of beautiful wonder, Quickly repeated the words that burst on her lonely recesses, Low in a love-lorn tone, too deep-distracted to answer ? What must have been thy Nature, oh Greece! when marvellous-lovely As it is now, it is only the tomb of an ancient existence ? MARATHON.
Side 18 - Till high intelligences glisten In their intense Egyptian eyes, — So I began, in that light breeze, Glancing along those noted seas, To trace a harmony distinct, A meaning in each change of tone, And sound to sound more strangely linkt, Than in my awe I dared to own : — But when in clearer unison That marvellous concord still went on, And, gently as a blossom grows, A frame of syllables uprose, With a delight akin to fear My heart beat fast and strong, to hear Two murmurs beautifully blent, As...
Side 10 - Not only with her antique properties, But with all other gifts and privilege, Within the circle of his regal hand. Now forward, — forward on a beaming path, But be each step as fair as hope has feigned it, For me, the memory of the little while, That here I rested happily, within The close-drawn pale of English sympathies, Will bear the fruit of many an after-thought, Bright in the dubious track of after-years. A DREAM OF SAPPHO. THE range of rocks which forms the
Side 104 - Verran le madri ai parvoli le belle Orme del vostro sangue. Ecco io mi prostro, O benedetti, al suolo, E bacio questi sassi e queste zolle, Che fien lodate e chiare eternamente Dall' uno all