 | 1813 - 1102 pages
...death reveal'd! So fair—so calm—so softly seal'd Tis Greece—but living Greece no more ! Such is the 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... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...softly sealed, He still might doubt the tyrant's power; The first, last look by death revealed! Such is the aspect of this shore; So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, "Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers, is the loveliness in... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 510 pages
...death revealed! So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, 'Tis Greece—but living Greece no more !s Such is the aspect of this shore— So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start—for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1814 - 584 pages
...look—by death reyeal'd! So fair—so calm—so softly seal'd Such is the aspect of this shore— 'Tis Greece—but living Greece no more! We start—for soul is wanting there. So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, Her's is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting... | |
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Tier's is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb— Expression's last receding ray... 