| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 Seiten
...thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like Patience on a monument, Smiling at Grief. 6. Oh Night, And Storm and Darkness, ye are wondrous...your strength as is the light Of a dark eye in woman. 7. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar;... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 Seiten
...thought. And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like Patience on a monument, Smiling at Grief. 6. Oh Night, And Storm and Darkness, ye are wondrous...your strength as is the light Of a dark eye in woman. 7. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar... | |
| Ethel Colburn Mayne - 1924 - 500 Seiten
...pinion " . . . l In stanza 92 occurs the description of the storm, with its renowned onomatopeia : "... Far along From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder I " He had been in this tempest at midnight on June 13, 1816. " I have seen several more terrible,... | |
| 1925 - 1012 Seiten
...seems particularly justifiable when the V is light and the S heavy. Cf. the following verse instances: Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Byron, Childe Har. Ill 862 — 3. Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves.... | |
| David Sinclair Burleson - 1925 - 440 Seiten
...precedes its substantive; but sometimes, especially in poetry, the substantive precedes (18); thus, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder. the end of the clause or sentence, even in the best usage. Compare the following sentences : Easy and... | |
| Edmund Shaftesbury - 1924 - 336 Seiten
...same easy flow, the following description of rain is given by Byron in his poem of the Alpine Storm: "Far along, from peak to peak, the rattling crags among, leaps the live thunder 1 Not from one lone cloud, but every mountain now hath found a tongue, and Jura answers through her... | |
| E.F. Bleiler - 1966 - 356 Seiten
...still waking to observe, what gave but a weak image of the storms which had desolated his own breast. The sky is changed!— and such a change; Oh, night!...among, Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud. Bui ever\ mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers tbro' her mistv sbroud, Back to tliL-... | |
| E.F. Bleiler - 1966 - 356 Seiten
...what gave but a weak image of the storms which had desolated his own breast. The sky is changed!—and such a change; Oh, night! And storm and darkness,...to peak, the rattling crags among. Leaps the live tbunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers thro'... | |
| 1850 - 44 Seiten
...the third Canto of that poem. Others might be referred to, but these will serve to illustrate :— " The sky is changed! and such a change ! oh night!...strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every... | |
| Washington State Bar Association - 1913 - 728 Seiten
...finest ideas to my mind is Byron's description of a thunderstorm in the Alps where the great bard says: 'From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, leaps the live thunder.' " His friend replied : "Yes, pretty; almost equal to the words of Habakkuk: 'He stood and measured... | |
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