 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...and intelleetual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caraeal la, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 396 pages
...and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the trueet motive« to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming tree^. which are extended in ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...whilst residing at Korne, composed his classic drama of Prometheus Unbound. ' This poem,' he says, ' da 1. guides and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever-winding labyrinths... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pages
...- The Prometheus and the Cenci were both written in Italy. " The Prometheus,'1 says Shelley, " was written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades and thickets-of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...acts. The Prometheus and the Cenci were both written in Italy. " The Prometheus,'' says Shelley, " was written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades and thickets;of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1853 - 394 pages
...porticoes were removed, the roofs fell in with so fearfu" a concussion that the inhabitants o: Rome thought it was the shock of an earthquake. These extensive ruins were the favourite haunt of the рое Shelley. In the preface to the ' Pro metheus Unbound' he says, "This ioem was chiefly written... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1862 - 480 pages
...and intellectual nature impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the fl«wery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever-winding labyrinths... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1865 - 666 pages
...not-fardistant Protestant cemetery, wrote the greater part of his ' Prometheus Unbound.' In the preface he says, 'This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extending in ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 714 pages
...grand line is quoted by Cicero ( Tusc. Disp, ii. 60} from the Epigoni of an unknown author. P. 306. " This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla-" The few words which Shelley here gives to this matter are divinely beautiful : but the reader will... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 pages
...and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extending in overwinding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air.... | |
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This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended... 
