 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...beyond man's hope: But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its...core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. Blake or Shelley would not have acknowledged that desire had a fitting medium, though Shelley frequently... | |
 | Jerrold E. Hogle - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 433 pages
..."refinement" of "philosophy by Christian morals." Byron's Canto the Third, in its turn, takes the "fire / And motion of the Soul which will not dwell / In its...but aspire / Beyond the fitting medium of desire" (a notion drawn in part from Alastor 1 ) and makes it a sense "Of that which is all creator and Defence,"... | |
 | Bernard G. Beatty, Vincent Newey - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 308 pages
...in modern form:'2 But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its...being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire: ... a fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. It is at this point that we... | |
 | Eugene O'Neill - Drama - 1988 - 326 pages
...now. SIMON [intent on the book] Remember this? We both marked it. [He reads] . . . there is a fire And motion of the Soul which will not dwell In its...being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire; streets beyond the wall it appears to be a weak sentimental supposition, a superstitious superfluity—but... | |
 | Susan Kirkpatrick - Fiction - 1991 - 308 pages
...románticos, inspiró a Byron una de las formulaciones más claras del yo prometeico: there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting médium of desire; And, but once kindled. quenchless evermore, Preys upon high adventure, ñor can... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...will not dwell In it« own narrow being, bat aspire Beyond the fitting medinrn of desire ; And, bat ll-recorded Worth; LXXXVI. Save where some solitary column mourns Above its prostrat bat rest; a fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. •ул.ттт This makes... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...a den.1 XLII 370 But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its...being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire; 375 And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, Preys upon high adventure, nor can tire Of aught but... | |
 | Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 332 pages
...the truth public. But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its...being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire. (st. 42) Of this "fever at the core" the text will say that it is "Fatal to him who bears, to all who... | |
 | Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - History - 2004 - 400 pages
...den.35-36 42. But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, 370 And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its...core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. 1J l. 366 Philip's son: Alexander the Great, Philip of Macedon's son. 35 1. 369 The great error of... | |
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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane ; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire ; And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, Preys... 
