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 woos us to its brink. Byronic Hero Types and Proto - Seite 142von Thorslev - 1999 - 204 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
| 1817 - 590 Seiten
...bright As their own beams ; and earth, and earth-born jars3 And human frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had...keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brink. XV. ' But in Man's dwellings he became a thing Restless and worn, and stern and wearisome, Droop'd... | |
| 1818 - 904 Seiten
...and earth, and earth-born jars, And human frailties, were forgotten quite: Could he have kept hi« spirit to that flight He had been happy; but this...break the link That keeps us from yon heaven which wooa DI to iti brink. " Bnt in man's dwellings he became a thing Restless and worn, and item and wearisome,... | |
| 1818 - 896 Seiten
...bright , As their own beams; and earth, and earth-born jars, And human frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had...will sink Its spark immortal, envying it the light our present author! An example will best illustrate our meaning. " Ti> midnight ! on the globe dread... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 Seiten
...earth-born jars, And linman frailties, were forgotten quite: Could he have kept his spirit to that flightl He had been happy ; but this clay will sink Its spark...light To which it mounts, as if to break the link Tiiat keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brink. XV. But in Man's dwellings he became a thing... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 Seiten
...bright As their own beams ; and earth, and earth-born jars, And human frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had...keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brink. XV. But in Man's dwellings he became a thing Restless and worn, and stern and wearisome, Droop'd as... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 Seiten
...bright As their own beams; ami earth, an 1 earth-born jars, And human frailties, were forgotten iInite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight . * He...it the light To which it mounts, as if to break the liuk That keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brink. XXI. There was a sound of revelry by... | |
| 1823 - 474 Seiten
...his past aspirations after a something holier than this brief life, we must exclaim with himself, " Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had been happy." Of the occasional voluptuousness of Lord Byron's earlier poems, we are not anxious to be the apologists... | |
| Louise Swanton-Belloc - 1824 - 400 Seiten
...flight He had beea happy; but this clay uill sink Its spark immortel, envying it the ligbt Towhichit mounts, as if to break the link That keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brinlc. XV. But in Mau's dwellings he became a thing Restless and worn, aud stern and wearisome, Droop'd... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 Seiten
...of the hreast which fain no more would feel, Wrung with the wounds which kill not, hut ne'er heal; Its spark immortal, envying it the light To which it mounts, as if to hreak the link That keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its hrink. XV. But in Man's dwellings... | |
| George Clinton - 1825 - 826 Seiten
...bright As their own beams ; and earth, and earth-born jars, And human frailties, were forgotten quite : Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had...keeps us from yon heaven, which woos us to its brink. But in man's dwellings he became a thing Restless and worn, and stern and wearisome — Drooped as... | |
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