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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 300
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873
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The Select Poetical Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...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,...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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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
...The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their 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 chain ; All that the proud can feel of pain ; The agony they do not show ; The suffocating...
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The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes

Thomas Bulfinch - 1856 - 512 pages
...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,...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
...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,...have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. Titan ! to thee the strife was given Between the suffering and the will, Which torture where...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with illustr. by K. Halswelle

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...eyea 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,...have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. Titan ! to thee the strife was given Between the suffering and the will, Which torture where...
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Poetry of the Age of Fable

1863 - 326 pages
...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,...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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Etna Vandemir: A Romance of Kentucky and "the Great Uprising."

Sallie J. Hancock - 1863 - 390 pages
...consummation of unholy nuptials! Better far the doom of death, than an unhallowed marriage bond — " The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can feel of pnia : The agony they do not show, The suffocating sense of woe, Which speaks but iu its loneliness."...
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A Selection from the Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 320 pages
...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,...have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. Which torture where they cannot kill; And the inexorable Heaven, And the deaf tyranny of...
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