 More graceful than her own. His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Seite 1391820Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Hughes - 1997 - 274 Seiten
...moves from Greece, through the relatively uncharted Upper Nile, to Ethiopia. He visits The awful ruins of the days of old: Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec,...sphynx, Dark Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals. (108-16) The Poet's eastward course is not purely imaginative; Shelley depends heavily on the journey... | |
 | Saree Makdisi - 1998 - 272 Seiten
...worth quoting at length: His wandering step Olx-dient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old: Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the (allen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thclx-s, and whatosoe'er of strange Sculptured... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 2003 - 219 Seiten
...and slavery, so vast, So sumptuous, yet so perishing withal! [']25 while in Alastor, The awful ruins of the days of old: Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem . . .26 engender the "thrilling secrets of the birth of time." But, unlike Shelley, Morgan tries to... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1885 - 636 Seiten
...to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the da}'s of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Baalbek, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns,... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1960 - 248 Seiten
...More graceful than her own. His wandering step. Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste 60 Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and... | |
 | 1895 - 672 Seiten
...bold pauses and solemn accents are natural to the large superb movement of his blank verse : • — and whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster obelisk Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there $ jj: -^: i(. £... | |
 | 1867 - 818 Seiten
...of his species after the Dispersion ; or find, if lie will, the very counterpart of — " The fal en towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange Sculptur'd on alabaster obelisk, Or Jaspar tomb, or mutilated sphinx, * Hiat. of Aui.T., b. ir. Dark... | |
 | 1820 - 568 Seiten
...interesting and worthy of a poet. " His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the wasti: Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes,... | |
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