 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 966 pages
...sceptred cynics earth were far too wide a den. But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. And there liatli sits. In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits ; Over uarrpw being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire ; And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore,... | |
 | Bernard G. Beatty, Vincent Newey - 1988 - 308 pages
...Byron recasts the satanic myth in modern form:'2 But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion of the soul...being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire: ... a fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. It is at this point that we... | |
 | Eugene O'Neill - 1988 - 326 pages
...as though it were now. SIMON [intent on the book] Remember this? We both marked it. [He reads] . . . there is a fire And motion of the Soul which will...being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire; streets beyond the wall it appears to be a weak sentimental supposition, a superstitious superfluity—but... | |
 | Jerrold E. Hogle - 1989 - 433 pages
...the "refinement" of "philosophy by Christian morals." Byron's Canto the Third, in its turn, takes the "fire / And motion of the Soul which will not dwell...but aspire / Beyond the fitting medium of desire" (a notion drawn in part from Alastor 1 ) and makes it a sense "Of that which is all creator and Defence,"... | |
 | Susan Kirkpatrick - 1991 - 308 pages
...mayoría de los románticos, inspiró a Byron una de las formulaciones más claras del yo prometeico: there is a fire And motion of the soul which will...its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting médium of desire; And, but once kindled. quenchless evermore, Preys upon high adventure, ñor can... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...sceptred cymes earth were far too wide a den. XT.TT Bat quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In it« own narrow being, bat aspire Beyond the fitting medinrn of desire ; And, bat once kindled, quenchless... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 pages
...cynics earth were far too wide a den.1 XLII 370 But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion of the soul...being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire; 375 And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, Preys upon high adventure, nor can tire Of aught but... | |
 | Jerome McGann - 2002 - 332 pages
...becomes Byron's occasion of making the truth public. But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion of the soul...being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire. (st. 42) Of this "fever at the core" the text will say that it is "Fatal to him who bears, to all who... | |
 | 330 pages
...cynics earth were far too wide a den. XLII But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, 370 And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion of the soul...desire ; And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, 375 Preys upon high adventure, nor can tire Of aught but rest; a fever at the core, Fatal to him who... | |
 | 232 pages
...sceptred cynics earth were far too wide a den. But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, 55 And there hath been thy bane ; there is a fire And motion of the...desire ; And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, 6o Preys upon high adventure, nor can tire Of aught but rest ; a fever at the core, Fatal to him who... | |
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But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane ; there is a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire ; And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, Preys... 
