Parrhasius stood, gazing forgetfully Upon his canvas. There Prometheus lay, Chained to the cold rocks of Mount Caucasus— The vulture at his vitals, and the links Of the lame Lemnian festering in his flesh... Poems of Early and After Years - Seite 133von Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1848 - 410 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 Seiten
...twilight air. '6. Parrhasius stood, gazing forgetfully Upon his canvas. There Prome'theus 4 lay, Chained to the cold rocks of Mount Caucasus — The vulture at his vitals, and the links Of the lame Lem'nian6 festering in his flesh ; And, as the painter's mind felt through the dim, Eapt mystery, and... | |
| Worthy Putnam - 1874 - 424 Seiten
...magical they lay. Parrhasius stood, gazing, forgetfully, Upon his canvas. There Prometheus lay Chained to the cold rocks of Mount Caucasus, The vulture at...his flesh ; And, as the painter's mind felt through tho dim, Rapt mystery, and plucked the shadows forth With its far-reaching fancy, and with form And... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 Seiten
...in the twilight air. j Parrhasius stood, gazing forgetfully Upon his canvas. There Prometheus la}', Chain'd to the cold rocks of Mount Caucasus— The...; And as the painter's mind felt through the dim, J Itapt mystery, and pluck'd the shadows forth With its far-reaching fancy, and with form And colour... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 Seiten
...DAVIS. PAREHASnJS. PARRHASHTS stood, gazing forgetfully Upon the canvas. There Prometheus lay, Chained to the cold rocks of Mount Caucasus, The vulture at...the links Of the lame Lemnian festering in his flesh ; Baltimore. And, as the painter's mind felt through the dim Rapt mystery, and plucked the shadows... | |
| 1876 - 734 Seiten
...stem Jove, And from the easement sober! v awav Of the lame Lemnian fostering in his flesh ; And ns the painter's mind felt through the dim, Rapt mystery,...forth With its far-reaching fancy, and with form And color clad them, his fine, earnest eye, • Flash'd with a passionate fire, and the quick curl Of his... | |
| 1876 - 732 Seiten
...Parrhasins stood, gazing forgetfully * Of the lame Lemnian festering in his flesh ; And as the pamter's mind felt through the dim, Rapt mystery, and pluck'd...forth With its far-reaching fancy, and with form And color clad them, his fine, earnest eye, Flash'd with a passionate fire, and the quick curl Of his thin... | |
| David Swing - 1876 - 316 Seiten
...the links of lame humanity festering in His flesh. There Prometheus lay, chained to the cold rocks of Caucasus ; The vulture at his vitals, and the links Of the lame Lemnian festering in his flesh. When we mark in what distorted shape the ages past accepted of its God, how they transformed Him into... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 Seiten
...DAVIS. PARRHASITJS. PARRHASIUS stood, gazing forgetfully Upon the canvas. There Prometheus lay, Chained to the cold rocks of Mount Caucasus, The vulture at...painter's mind felt through the dim Rapt mystery, and plucked the shadows forth With its far-reaching fancy, and with form And color clad them, his fine,... | |
| 1879 - 652 Seiten
...Olynthian slave, and tortured him on the rack that he might adequately present the agonies of Prometheus, " The vulture at his vitals, and the links Of the lame Lemnian festering in his flesh." They could use stratagems of imagination in their representations of men. " Polygnotus," says Aristotle,... | |
| Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1880 - 178 Seiten
...love been compelled to endure grief unutterable, torture such as would have maddened Prometheus, " The vulture at his vitals, and the links Of the lame Lemnian festering in his flesh," take my word for it that this is infinitely better than not to have tested " The cruel madness of love,... | |
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