 | 680 pages
...smile ! the smile of death, BO meaningless, passionless, and chilling, pierced me to the quick : " So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there." Her condition was indeed deplorable in the extreme. As soon as possible we embarked for Dover ; the... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 580 pages
...softly sealed The first — last look — by death revealed ! '< Such is the aspect of this shore — . 'Tis Greece — but living Greece no more ! • ,...with parting breath; But beauty with that fearful bkiom, That hue which haunts it to the tombExpression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1813 - 90 pages
...a few hours after " the spirit is not there." It is to be reSuch 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... | |
 | 1813 - 662 pages
...softly seal'd The first — last look — by death reveal'd ! Such is the aspect of this shore — 'Tis Greece — -but living Greece no more ! So coldly...death, That parts not quite with parting breath.' pp. 4- — 6. The plunging of Leila's body in the waves must net be omitted. ' Thou speakest sooth,... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 1102 pages
...aspect of this shore— So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start—for soul is wanting there. Tier's is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with...it to the tomb— Expression's last receding ray, A-gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away ! Spark of that flame—perchance... | |
 | 1813 - 566 pages
...living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start — for soul is wanting there. Her's is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with...that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tombExpression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling... | |
 | 1813 - 552 pages
...so softfy seal'd The first — last look — by death reveal'd! Such is the aspect ot this shore — '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; But beauty with that fearful... | |
 | 1813 - 560 pages
...so softly seal'd The first— last look — by death reveal'd ! Such is the aspect of this shore—, 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 ; i But beauty with that... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pages
...softly scal'd The first — last look — by death reveal'd ! Such is the aspect of this shore — '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 ; But beauty with that fearful... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...so softly seal'd The first — last look — by death reveal'd! Such is the aspect of this shore — 'Tis Greece — but living Greece no more' So coldly...deadly fair, . We start — for soul is wanting there. Her) ia the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breatli; But beauty with that fearful... | |
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Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. 
