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" TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise ; What was thy pity's recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can... "
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron - Page 297
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873
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Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science, Volume 1; Volume 46

1845 - 606 pages
...With an immortal's patience blending :" In his " Prometheus," also, he expresses a similar thought : " A silent suffering and intense ; The rock, the vulture,...the proud can feel of pain, The agony they do not shew, The suffocating sense of woe. Which speaks but in its loneliness." strange^ inconsistency with...
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The Select Poetical Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...die ; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! PROMETHEUS. TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...woe, Which speaks but in its loneliness, And then is je ilous lest ihe sky Shouid have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. Titan ! to...
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Essays and Reviews ...

Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...Byron was not ever the champion of noisy miseries and talkative despair, but could feel the power of " Silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture,...loneliness, And then is jealous, lest the sky Should have a listener, nor will sigh ' Until its voice is echoless." Hope and joy, to this stern misanthropy,...
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Histoire de la peinture en Italie

Jean Jacques F. Coindet - 1849 - 646 pages
...voile de l'allégorie les souffrances de l'âme de Salvator, si poétiquement rendues par Byron : « A silent suffering and intense, The rock, the vulture, and the chain! etc. » Je traduis cette strophe. « Une souffrance profonde et silencieuse; le rocher, le vautour...
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The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa

Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1855 - 334 pages
...him, whose own Prometheus is drawn under the same inspiration as directed the pencil of Salvator. " A silent suffering, and intense — The rock, the...loneliness; And then is jealous lest the sky Should have a list'ner, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless — " The Prometheus of Lord Byron. This picture...
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The Age of Fable, Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes

Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 pages
...oppression. Byron and Shelley have both treated this theme. The following are Byron's lines : — " Titan ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise ; AVhat was thy pity's recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the Tulture, and the...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, Page 10, Volume 2

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 434 pages
...Obscurity and Fame, — The Glory and the Nothing of a Name.1 Diodati, 1816. PROMETHEUS. i. TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise ; 4 [Originally — "then most pleased, I shook My inmost pocket's most retired nook, And out fell...
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The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes

Thomas Bulfinch - 1856 - 512 pages
...oppression. Byron and Shelley have both treated this theme. The following are Byron's lines : — " Titan ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...agony they do not show ; The suffocating sense of woe. " Thy godlike crime was to be kind ; To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness,...
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Poems

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...was Obscurity and Fame, — The Glory and the Nothing of a Name. Diodltl.lSlO. PROMETHEUS. TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...loneliness, And then is jealous lest the sky Should have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. Titan ! to thee the strife was given Between...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with life

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...proud, and makes the breath of glory reel ! PROMETHEUS. TiTAN ! to whose immortal eyes The suIferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality. Were not...recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rook, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can feel of pain, The agony they do not show The...
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