While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. National Review - Page 701863Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...lest the grave should he, Like life and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and them Voices of warning that announce to us Only the...sometimes paints its image In (he atmosphere, so ofte call'd on poisonous names with which our youth is fed : I was not heard : I saw them not. When musing... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...lest the grave should be, Like life and fear, a dark reality. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and ever injures men. CYCLOPS. calTd on poisonous names with which our youth is fed : I was not heard : 1 saw them not When musing... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Medwin - 1833 - 200 pages
...hearing, all life, all mind, self-existent," &c. Thence arose the first germ of Shelley's scepticism. And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. Burgher's tale of ' Leonora' was an especial favourite with him : he had also procured the splendid... | |
| Thomas Medwin - 1833 - 196 pages
...hearing, all life, all mind, self-existent," &c. Thence arose the first germ of Shelley's scepticism. And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. Burgher's tale of ' Leonora' was an especial favourite with him : he had also procured the splendid... | |
| 1834 - 374 pages
...talented Shelley owns also that such are his sentiments : — " While yet a boy I sought for Ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin....pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead." This age is incredulous ; a powerful scepticism prevails, and people will not be convinced of the existence... | |
| 1835 - 842 pages
...sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, Anil itarligiil wood, willi fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the...called on poisonous names with which our youth is tod : 1 was not heard : 1 saw them not. "When musing deeply on the lot Of life at that sweet time when... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 522 pages
...nature, and pursuing all the fancies it created and nurtured. "While yet a boy, I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin,...pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. "When musing deeply; on the lot of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing All vital things... | |
| 1836 - 352 pages
...cave- and ruin, And star-iight wood, wffii fearfnl steps pursnitig Hopes ot' high talk with the deputed dead : I called on poisonous names, with which our youth is fed. I was not beard : I saw them not. " I dare not say I am not superstitious now : I should not like to disbelieve... | |
| 1836 - 802 pages
...it. In his Hymn to Intellectual Beauty we find these lines. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, wilh fearful «cpe pursuing Hopes of high talk with the depart«! dead : I called on pnisonous names... | |
| Thomas Miller - 1839 - 390 pages
...out his four fingers, remained silent. ; THE HAUNTED HOUSE. While yet a boy, I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave, and ruin,...our youth is fed. I was not heard : I saw them not. SHELLEY. WHILE in search of historical facts for my last work, I was forcibly struck with the various... | |
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