 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1887 - 730 Seiten
...when the vacancy of their spirit suddenly makes itself felt. All else, selfish, blind, and torpid, are those unforeseeing multitudes who constitute, together...hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket !" EARTH, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood ! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1887 - 592 Seiten
...when the vacancy of their spirit suddenly makes itself felt. All else, selfish, blind, and torpid, are those unforeseeing multitudes, who constitute, together...own, the lasting misery and loneliness of the world." * " Alastor " has been described as hectic and unhealthy in sentiment ; in truth, it was the product... | |
 | William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 Seiten
...Simple lines by Fitz-Greene Halleck in the next lesson. LESSON XI. ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. "The good die first, And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." WM. WORDSWORTH. Ureen be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1888 - 504 Seiten
...when the vacancy of their spirit suddenly makes itself felt. All else, selfish, blind, and torpid, are those unforeseeing multitudes, who constitute, together...own, the lasting misery and loneliness of the world.' ' Alastor ' has been described as hectic and unhealthy in sentiment ; in truth, it was the product... | |
 | James Stark - 1889 - 202 Seiten
...exaggeration and injustice, along, however, with a few grains of truth, in the well-known lines : " The good die first, and those whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn to the socket." But the truth of that observation is immensely overshadowed by the counter declaration : " Because... | |
 | American Association of Orificial Surgeons - 1890 - 148 Seiten
...perfect in every particular. Dr. EH PRATT presented the following, which was adopted unanimously : The good die first, and those whose hearts are dry as Summer dust burn to the socket. One of the brightest and best workers in the work of Oiificial Surgery has laid by his instruments,... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 Seiten
...ironically quoting the Wanderer's introduction to the tragic tale of Margaret in Book I of The Excursion: The good die first, And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket! In the light of the poems printed with Alastor, Wordsworth and Coleridge are held among those who burn... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman - 1987 - 281 Seiten
...from it! Or Shelley, who prefaced Alastor (1815) with lines taken from "The Ruined Cottage" ("Oh Sir! the good die first / And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust / Burn to the socket"), and who relates an even darker version of the loss of Margaret's garden in The Sensitive Plant. What... | |
 | Frederic Stewart Colwell - 1989 - 246 Seiten
...character, and appears to tar his young quester with the same brush: "Those who love not their fellow beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave." There is some ambivalence in Shelley's position, but it is incautious to conclude that Shelley was... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 Seiten
...when the vacancy of their spirit suddenly makes itself felt. All else, selfish, blind, and torpid, are those unforeseeing multitudes who constitute, together...those whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket!'33 14 December 1815 Nondum amabam, et amare amabam, quaerebam quid amarem, amans [a]mare.16... | |
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Among those who attempt to exist without human sympathy, the pure and tender-hearted perish through the intensity and passion of their search after its communities, when the vacancy of their spirit suddenly makes itself felt. All else, selfish, blind,... 
