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 Thebes, and whatsoe'er of... The Influence of Milton on English Poetry - Page 232by Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 722 pagesFull view - About this book
| FRANCIS L. HAWKS, D.D., LL.D. - 1850
...NOVEMBER, 1848, AND APRIL, 1849. "-*••-•*."--• -His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, haa visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens,...pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange Scupltured on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hills... | |
| England - 1820 - 774 pages
...earth into the upper regions, his route is, to our taste, much more interesting and worthy of a poet. His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has...whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, I r jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, lark ^Ethiopia in her desert hills •i u-Kil ,. Among tin- ruined... | |
| 1820 - 784 pages
...interesting and worthy of a poet. His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful rains of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec,...sphynx, Dark Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns, and wild images Of more than man, where marble... | |
| 1820 - 558 pages
...earth into the upper regions, his route is, to our taste, much more interesting and worthy of a poet. " His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has...sphynx, Dark Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns, and wild images Of more than man, where marble... | |
| Leigh Cliffe - 1823 - 820 pages
...listener; a necessary qualification for the lover or the husband of a bas bleu, Her wandering thoughts had visited " The awful ruins of the days of old ; Athens,...sphynx, Dark .Ethiopia in her desert hills conceals ; " and she would fain have persuaded those around her, that she had been there in propria persona,.... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1824 - 440 pages
...leaf rustles in the brake, suspend Her timid steps, to gaze upon a form More graceful 'than her own. His wandering step, Obedient to high thoughts, has...of old: Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste 110 Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1824 - 438 pages
...thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste 110 Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon,...whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or jaspar tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desart hills Conceals. Among the ruined temples... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...Allions, and Tyre, and lialbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Rabylon, l ho eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange, Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or j.ieper tnmb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Ethiopia on her desert hill» Conceals, Among the ruin'd temples... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...graceful than her own. His wandering step, , Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruina and pernicious. They who, deluded by no generous error,...thirst of doubtful knowledge, Ս킀 Z Y pyramide, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange, Sculptur'd on alabaster obelisk, Of jasper... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - Danish literature - 1832 - 706 pages
...îSîonb Ьигф bie geheimnisvollen The nwful ruins of the days of olí: Athens, and Tyre, and Balbcc, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem , the fallen towers...on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx, Dark Acthiopia in her desert Mils Conceals. Among the ruined temples there, Stupendous columns... | |
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