 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...  The Church Quarterly Review - Page 65edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
 | 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...odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extending in overwinding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...spirits attendant upon the sufferer are especially charming. ' It was chiefly written," says Shelley, ' upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla,...thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in everwinding labyrinths upon its immense platform and dizzy arches suspended in the air.... | |
 | 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...thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air.... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...published Prometheus Unbound, which he had written while resident in Rome. ' This poem,' he says, ' extended in ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air.... | |
 | 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...thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees which are extended in ever widening labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air."... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 pages
...places to the precipice. This you ascend, 1 In his preface to " Prometheus Unbound," Shelley says: "This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous...thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1878 - 800 pages
...— " chiefly [as he has recorded] upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla [in Rome], among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in everwinding labyrinths upon its immense platforms, and dizzy arches suspended in the air.... | |
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