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 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1884 - 654 pages
...palace-court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up. One hand she pressed upon that aching spot Where beats the human heart, as if just there, Though an... | |
 | Great Britain - 1879 - 1156 pages
...me to repeat that sentiment in Ecclesiastes ; it speaks of an expression in a man's face : As though the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its storied thunder labouring up. This is why poor Paterfamilias, sitting in the family pew, is not so... | |
 | Edgar Mertner, Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt - 968 pages
...in it. But houses and their customs were different in those days. CALAMITIES FOLLOWING CALAMITIES. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if its vamvard clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was tvilh its stored thunder... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 252 pages
...power in which Keats's gods exceed us is the power to suffer: But oh, how unlike marble was that face! How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than beauty's self. (Hyperion, 1.34-36) Some mourning words, which in our feeble tongue Would come in these like accents... | |
 | D. H. Lawrence - Fiction - 1983 - 512 pages
...Recollections of Early Childhood' (1807) (line 64). The rest of this passage has no clear source, but cf. ' How beautiful, if sorrow had not made / Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self from Keats's 'Hyperion' (1820), i. 35-6. 70:7 the Kennels. . .Lord Byron. In 1765 the grandfather of... | |
 | Hermione de Almeida - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 429 pages
...sphinx . . . / When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. / But oh! how unlike marble was that face: / How beautiful, if sorrow had not made / Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self," Oceanus's thoughtful face of "severe content," Caf's "dusky face" that bears "More thought than woe,"... | |
 | Arts - 1875 - 398 pages
...thrill and haunt the mind. Permit us to recall a few : — " But, oh ! how unlike marble was that face : How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up." " Some mourning words, which in our feeble tongue Would come in these like accents ; O how frail To... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; (1. 18-19) 21 l ne'er come nigh reaching Till he leams the distinction 'twixt singing and pre (1. 35—36) 22 Those green-rob'd senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest... | |
 | John Keats - Poetry - 1994 - 554 pages
...Goddess in fair statuary29 Surpassing wan Moneta by the head, And in her sorrow nearer woman's tears. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun; 340 As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its... | |
 | John Keats, Robert Gittings - Literary Collections - 1995 - 324 pages
...palace court, When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore. But oh! how unlike marble was that face: 35 How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more...had but begun; As if the vanward clouds of evil days 40 Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up. One hand she... | |
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