 | 1850 - 638 pages
...a picture of his suit and service under Alphonso in all the colours of a transcendental sorrow, as some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.' Our limits do not permit of our tracing the progress of Tasso's misfortunes at the court of Ferrara.... | |
 | 1819 - 792 pages
...King with gathered brow, and lips Wreathed by long scorn, did inly sneer and frown With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. She stood beside him like a rainbow braided Within some storm, when scarce its shadows vast From the... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...King with gathered brow, and lips Wreathed by long scorn, did inly sneer and frown With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. She stood beside him like a rainbow braided Within some storm, when scarce its shadows vast From the... | |
 | 1821 - 724 pages
...summoned away from these : I am now arrived at an Iliad of woes : for 1 have now to record THE PAINS or OPIUM. as when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. Sltcllcy'i Revolt of Islam. Reader, who have thus far accompanied me, I must request your attention... | |
 | S. Waring - 1827 - 122 pages
...joy that life bestows, Than all that earth and sky contain, With vice or slavery in their train." ' As when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.' I could not, without effort, constrain myself to the task of either recalling, or constructing into... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...King with gather'd brow, and lips Wreath'd by long scorn, did inly sneer and frown With hue like that o my head, And I fell down in a swound. How long in that same fit 0 XXIV. She Mood beside him like a rainbow braided Within some м. и in. when scarce its shadows vast... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...King with guihcr'd brow, and lips Wreathed by lung scorn, did inly sneer and frown With huo like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. XXIV. She stood beside him like a rainbow braided Within some storm, when scarce its shadow \i«t From... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 410 pages
...King, with gathered brow and lips Wreathed by long scorn, did inly sneer and frown With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. She stood beside him like a rainbow braided Within some storm, when scarce its shadows vast From the... | |
 | 1845 - 656 pages
...delineated, with a master's skill, and a martyr's suffering, " the pleasures and the pains of opium" — A« when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. He has felt its effects in all their phases, both sorrowful and mirthful, and has no; only himself... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 pages
...half I am summoned away from these : I am now arrived at an Iliad of woes : for I have now to record THE PAINS OF OPIUM. as when some great painter dips...gloom of earthquake and eclipse. Shelley's Revolt ofltlam. Reader, who have thus far accompanied me> I must request your attention to a brief explanatory... | |
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OPIUM As when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. 
