| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1876 - 430 pages
...lions shall they guard us when we please; IJke Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves, Or I,apland giants, trotting by our sides; Sometimes like women,...Than have the white breasts of the queen of love." 1 What brilliant dreams, what desires, what vast or voluptuous wishes, worthy of a Roman Cresar or... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 522 pages
...dwelling-place is here for thee — * It was entire in 1G87 — the most elevated spot in Athens. t Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love. — Marloift And greener fields than in yon world above, And woman's loveliness — and passionate... | |
| Christopher Marlowe - 1877 - 186 pages
...lions shall they guard us when we please ; • - L.ike Almain julters with their horsemen's staves, 125 Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides ; Sometimes...unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than's in the white breasts of the Queen of Love : From Venice shall they drag huge argosies, 130 And... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...element Be always serviceable to us three. Like lions shall they guard us when we please ; Like Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland giants trotting by our sides : Sometimes like women, or unweddeJ maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the Queen... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1879 - 336 pages
...loveliness — and passionate love." * It was entire in 1687 — the most elevated spot in Athens, t Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love. — " But, list, lanthe f when the air so soft Fail'd, as my pennon'd spirit leapt aloft,* Perhaps... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1880 - 426 pages
...or into Kipland Giants. He does not even care to make them appear before him as Women, or unweddcd maids. Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love. The magic of Faust is not the mngic of the magician — it is the magic of modern science ; and in... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - American fiction - 1882 - 430 pages
...in 1687 — the most elevated spot in Athens. 39 P. 144. Ihan e'en thy glowing bosom beats withal. Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love. — Marlowe. 30 P. 144. Failed, as my pennoned spirit leapt aloft. Pennon — for pinion — Milton.... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1883 - 222 pages
...passionate love." " But list, lanthe 1 when the air so soft Failed, as my pennon'd spirit leapt aloft,t * " Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love." — MARLOWE. t Pennon, for pinion. — MILTON. Perhaps my brain grew dizzy — but the world I left... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 706 pages
...touched this bass-chord of carnal desire with the hand of a poet-painter rather than a sensualist : Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids. Shadowing...Than have the white breasts of the queen of love. Yet it was in no Platonic mood that he set those mighty sails of his imagination to the breeze upon... | |
| John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1884 - 696 pages
...touched this bass-chord of carnal desire with the hand of a poet-painter rather than a sensualist : Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing...Than have the white breasts of the queen of love. Yet it was in no Platonic mood that he set those mighty sails of his imagination to the breeze upon... | |
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