 As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power ; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look, by death...  The British review and London critical journal - Page 1361813Full view - About this book
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...softly seal'd The first— last look— by death reveal'd ! * Such is the aspect of this shore — 90 Tis Greece — but living Greece no more ! So coldly...in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; Q5 But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tombExpression's last receding... | |
 | Literature - 1814 - 680 pages
...tyrant's power, So fair — so calm— so sofily seal'd The first— last look— by death reveal'd ! Such is the aspect of this shore — "Tis Greece— but living Greece no more t So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start — for soul is wanting there. Here is the loveliness in... | |
 | Decoration and ornament - 1823 - 328 pages
...and that only ; and we might say in the language of the poet, upon beholding a Grecian landscape, " Such is the aspect of this shore ; 'Tis Greece, but...so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there :" but in the Diorama this monotony of effect is entirely obviated by the fluctuating lights which... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 226 pages
...calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed! 5 Such is the aspect of this shore; 90 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly...in death, That parts not quite with parting breath; Q5 But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb, Expression's last receding... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 384 pages
...to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon j Yes, but for these and these alone, 85 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly...sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting them Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite \vith parting breath; g5 But beauty with... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...treacherous hour, So fair — so calm — so softly seal'd The first — last look — by death reveal'dt Such is the aspect of this shore — 'Tis Greece — but living Greece no more F So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start — for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 308 pages
...so softly seal'd, The first, last look by death reveal'd ! (5) Such is the aspect of this shore; 90 Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly...in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; 95 But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb, Expression's last receding... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1820 - 442 pages
...the tyrants's power, So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, The first, last look by death reveal'd :— Such is the aspect of this shore, Tis Greece, but...so deadly fair We start, for soul is wanting there ! Here is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath, But beauty with that fearful... | |
 | Hugh William Williams - Greece - 1820 - 488 pages
...too, the beauteous seas almost without a sail, — the lands of ancient Sicyon so thinly peopled ! " Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly...deadly fair, We start — for soul is wanting there! Her's is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; 404 DESOLATION OF GREECE.... | |
 | Hugh William Williams - Greece - 1820 - 492 pages
...— the lands of ancient Sicyon so thinly peopled ! " "Pis Greece, but living Greece no more ! , §o coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start — for soul is wanting there! Her's is the loveliness in death, ''*l'h'at parts not quite with parting breath ; 404 DESOLATION OF... | |
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