 | William Allen White - 1916 - 330 pages
...Boyce Kilworth's bank watching the Judge out skirmishing for a cigar — " He wears the hue lite that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse." " 'Tis the procession of the bleedin' heart," returned Delaney. " And I wonder," he mused on, " whether... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 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...earthquake and eclipse." Shelley's Revolt of Islam. A Digression on Reading Aloud (From the Confessions) I shall now enter in medias res, and shall anticipate,... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 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...earthquake and eclipse." Shelley's Revolt of Islam. A Digression on Reading Aloud (From the Confessions) I shall now enter in medias res, and shall anticipate,... | |
 | Douglas Gordon Crawford - 1919 - 398 pages
...of life. Trade gives employment to numbers and so produces intermediate good. 8. With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. (Is this a sentence ?) 9. A Frenchman, having repeatedly heard the word press, used to imply persuade,... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...and vet he's but a filthy piece of work. Timon of Athens. Act 1. Sc. 1. L. 200. 8 With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. SHELLEY— The Reivlt of Islam. Canto V. St. 23. t There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...half I am summoned away from these ; I am now arrived at an Iliad of woes : for I have now to record ght : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild...Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bell (V. 23). I now pass to what is the main subject of these latter confessions, to the history and journal... | |
 | James Alexander Kerr Thomson - 1927 - 262 pages
...restraint which expresses the Irony of his mind. Tacitus, on the other hand, writes ' with hue like that when some great painter dips his pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.' There is exaggeration in him, but it is the exaggeration of art. It is, as it were, the apocalypse... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1927 - 372 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. 24 She stood beside him like a rainbow braided Within some storm, when scarce its shadows vast From... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1907 - 296 pages
...summoned away from these. Here opens upon me an Iliad of woes : for I now enter upon THE PAINS OF OPIUM 1 As when some great painter dips His pencil in the...earthquake and eclipse.' SHELLEY'S Revolt of Islam. Reader, whj have thus far accompanied me, I must request your attention, before we go farther, to a few explanatory... | |
 | 1900 - 874 pages
...haunts Miriam in Hawthorne's "Marble Faun." The Inquisition, its cells and its tribunals are colored as when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of thunder and eclipse. The comic valet, Paulo, who Insists on being locked up in the dungeons of the... | |
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Farewell to hope and to tranquil dreams, and to the blessed consolations of sleep. For more than three years and a half I am summoned away from these. 
