 For all corrupted things are buoy'd like corks, By their own rottenness, light as an elf, Or wisp that flits o'er a morass: he lurks, It may be, still, like dull books on a shelf, In his own den, to scrawl some 'Life' or 'Vision,' As Welborn says —...  The Works of George Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life - Page 295by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1894 - 460 pages
..., Reform shall happen either here or there. cv. He first sank to the bottom — like his works, But soon rose to the surface — like himself ; For all corrupted things are buoy'd like corks,1 By their own rotteuness, light as an elf, Or wisp that flits o'er a morass ; ho lurks, It may... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901 - 660 pages
...the silence of evening." Vision of Judgement, xii. For all corrupted things are buoyed like corks,1 By their own rottenness, light as an elf, Or wisp...shelf, In his own den, to scrawl some " Life " or " Vision," L As Welborn says — " the Devil turned precisian." 8 cvi. As for the rest, to come to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pages
...831 Reform shall happen either here or there. cv He first sank to the bottom — like his works, But divine Break no commandment, for high heaven is there...With thought and beings of our thought reflected, Can ' Vision," As Welborn says — ' the devil turn'd precisian.' 840 cvi As for the rest, to come to the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...831 Reform shall happen either here or there. cv He first sank to the bottom — like his works, But 'G4_5_ H6N S SmT]# \ ] ^ ' Vision,' As Welborn says — ' the devil turn'd precisian.' 840 cvi As for the rest, to come to the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1110 pages
...831 Reform shall happen either here or there. cv He first sank to the bottom — like his works, But hZ ' Vision,' As Welborn says — ' the devil turn'd precisian.' 840 CV1 As for the rest, to come to the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 632 pages
...the bell from the tower, TOLL I TOLL ! through the For all corrupted things are buoyed like corks, 1 By their own rottenness, light as an elf, Or wisp...shelf, In his own den, to scrawl some " Life " or " Vision," L As Welbor n says — " the Devil turned precisian." 2 cvI. As for the rest, to come to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...831 Reform shall happen either here or there. cv He first sank to the bottom — like his works, But ut instead, My joy was in the Wilderness, to breathe The Hits o'er a morass: he lurks, It may be, still, like dull books on a shelf, In his own den, to scrawl... | |
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 pages
...ease, Into his lake, for there he did not drown ; He first sank to the bottom — like his works, But soon rose to the surface — like himself ; For all corrupted things are buoy"d like corks." The little masterpiece is composed on exactly the same lines as the poem of Southey's which it parodies.... | |
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1906 - 394 pages
...ease, Into his lake, for there he did not drown ; He first sank to the bottom — like his works, But soon rose to the surface — like himself ; For all corrupted things are buoyM like corks." The little masterpiece is composed on exactly the same lines as the poem of Southey's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 1376 pages
...Scott's Antiy, Tkf Novels, Oc.. 1851, i. 375.] He first sank to the bottom — like his works, But n him; see how full of life, 140 Of strength, of bloom, of beauty, and buoyed like corks,1 By their own rottenness, light as an elf, Or wisp that flits o'er a morass: he... | |
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