 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 646 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...odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1888 - 540 pages
...one of the most beautiful of his prose passages, in the Introduction to Prometheus, he writes : — '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... | |
 | 1876 - 386 pages
...of Hadrian, built as an approach to the mausoleum. It is almost wholly ancient, except the parapets. mountainous ruins of the baths of Caracalla, among...odoriferous blossoming trees which are extended in ever widening labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air." * This... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...was published Prometheus Unbound, which he had written while resident in Rome. ' This poem,' he says, 'was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flower)- glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever-winding labyrinths... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1878 - 236 pages
...enthusiastic admiration of innumerable visitors. Shelley, in the preface of his Promethej1s Unbound, says, " This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous TEMPLE OF VESTA. blossoming trees, which are extended in ever-widening labyrinths upon its immense... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 458 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...odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 660 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 CaracalU, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1881 - 658 pages
...and these have been placed in the Roman galleries. In the preface to " Prometheus Unbound," Shelley says : " This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in everwidening labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air." In this... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 pages
...in the indulgence of gross and vulgar sensuality." Gibbon. &£* " This poem [the Prometheus Unbound] was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...odoriferous blossoming trees which are extended in ever-widening labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches." Shelley. Baths of Diocletian.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1881 - 474 pages
...grand line is quoted by Cicero ( Tusc. Disp. ii. 60) from the Epigoni of an unknown author. P. 64. " 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... | |
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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... 
