 I scarcely had one night of quiet sleep Such ghastly visions had I of despair And tyranny, and implements of death, And long orations which in dreams I pleaded Before unjust Tribunals, with a voice Labouring, a brain confounded, and a sense...  The Quarterly Review - Seite 262herausgegeben von - 1927Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Wordsworth - 1893 - 454 Seiten
...brought in charge against mankind. Most melancholy at that time, O Friend ! Were my day-thoughts, — my nights were miserable ; Through months, through years,...the last beat Of those atrocities, the hour of sleep 400 To me came rarely charged with natural gifts, Such ghastly visions had I of despair And tyranny,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1896 - 432 Seiten
...mankind. Most melancholy at that time, O Friend ! Wprp my rlay-thnng-htSj my nights wprp misprahlp • Through months, through years, long after the last beat Of those atrocities, the hour of sleep 40o To me came rarely charged with natural gifts, Such ghastly visions had I of despair And tyranny,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 1002 Seiten
...brought in charge against mankind. Most melancholy at that time, O Friend 1 Were my day-thoughts, — my nights were miserable; Through months, through years,...the last beat Of those atrocities, the hour of sleep 400 To me came rarely charged with natural gifts, Such ghastly visions had I of despair And tyranny,... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - 1906 - 662 Seiten
...melancholy at that time, O Friend ! Were my day-thonghts, my nights were miserable. Through mouths, through years, long after the last beat Of those atrocities,...despair, And tyranny, and implements of death ; . . . And levity in dnngeons, where the dust Was laid with tears. Then suddenly the scene Changed, and the unbroken... | |
 | Emile Legouis, Sir Leslie Stephen - 1921 - 506 Seiten
...dismay. It haunted him like a nightmare. Most melancholy at that time, Were my day-thoughts, — my nights were miserable ; Through months, through years,...with natural gifts, Such ghastly visions had I of despair.3 In dreams he was brought to the foot of the scaffold, or into the cells of the condemned,... | |
 | 1927 - 560 Seiten
...writes in the earlier version : Most melancholy at that time, O Friend ! Were my day-thoughts, my dreams were miserable ; Through months, through years, long after the last beat Of those atrocities (I speak bare truth, As if to thee alone in private talk) I scarcely had one night of quiet sleep Such... | |
 | H. Cotton Minchin, Humphrey Cotton Minchin - 1926 - 320 Seiten
...the day of vengeance yet to come. Then came the Terror, and with it a worse conflict in his mind : Through months, through years, long after the last...victims sinking under fear, And momentary hope, and worn out prayer, Each in his separate cell, or penned in crowds For sacrifice, and struggling with... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1970 - 372 Seiten
...mankind; Most melancholy at that time, O Friend ! Were my day-thoughts, my dreams were miserable; 370 Through months, through years, long after the last beat Of those atrocities (I speak bare truth, [400] As if to thee alone in private talk) I scarcely had one night of quiet sleep... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 Seiten
...in the same unsettling way: Most melancholy at that time, O Friend! Were my day-thoughts, my dreams were miserable; Through months, through years, long after the last beat Of these atrocities (/ speak bare truth, As if to thee alone in private talk) I scarcely had one night... | |
 | Erika Gottlieb - 1992 - 332 Seiten
...here of the manifestation of another spiritual crisis, the one Wordsworth describes in The Prelude: Such ghastly visions had I of despair And tyranny...of death; And innocent victims sinking under fear, Each in his separate cell, or penned in crowds For sacrifice Then suddenly the scene Changed, and the... | |
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