A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped ; But 'scaped in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret : With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth... The convert. By the author of 'The two rectors'. - Pągina 228per George Wilkins - 1826 - 444 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Jerome McGann - 2002 - 332 pągines
...which could befall. He stood a stranger in this breathing world. An erring spirit from another hu1l'd; A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice...'scaped in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would hall exult and half regret. With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould... | |
| George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 416 pągines
...Othello (v, ii, 343) and Timon of Athens — 'to hate for having lov'd too well' (Lara, l, 17): one With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth. (Lara, i, 18) He was well aware of the nature of ingratitude, though he rarely referred to it. Here... | |
| Deborah Lutz - 2006 - 130 pągines
...which could befall, He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurled; A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice...memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret. (1.17.1-8) This "stranger in this breathing world" mourns the past, mourns life and a place among the... | |
| Jane Austen - 2006 - 56 pągines
...breathing -world, / An erring spirit from another hurled; / A thing of dark imaginings', yet possessed of 'more capacity for love than earth /Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth'; and in The Corsair, -which depicts the 'villain' -who 'gainst that passion vainly still he strove',... | |
| 1920 - 232 pągines
...A thing of dark imaginings, that shap'd By choice the perils he by chance escap'd; 15o But 'scap'd in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would half...birth, His early dreams of good outstripp'd the truth, 155 And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth; With thought of years in phantom chase misspent, And... | |
| Northrop Frye - 2005 - 465 pągines
...Lara Byron says: He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurl'd; A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice...memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret . . . But haughty still and loth himself to blame, He call'd on Nature's self to share the shame, And... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 606 pągines
...half exult and half regret : 320 i. gayest of the gay.—[MS.] ii. an inward scorn of all. — [MS.] With more capacity for love than Earth Bestows on...of mortal mould and birth. His early dreams of good outstripped the truth,1 And troubled Manhood followed baffled Youth ; With thought of years in phantom... | |
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