 | 1848 - 636 pages
...acts. The Prometheus and the Cenci were both written in Italy. " The Prometheus," says Shelley, " was written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of...platforms, and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate,... | |
 | 1848 - 626 pages
..."The Prometheus,'' says Shelley, " was written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caraoalla, among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous...platforms, and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the efiiect of the vigorous awakening oi spring in that divinest climate,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades and thickets;of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in...platforms, and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divincst climate,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...intellectual nature, impelled by tile purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate,... | |
 | 1852 - 318 pages
...residing at Rome, he wrote his notable classic drama of " Promethens Unbound." " This šoera," he says, " was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...platforms, and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright, blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate,... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1852 - 462 pages
...was chiefly written upon what he called, from its magnitude, the mountainous ruins of Caracalla, and among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in every winding labyrinth upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1854 - 288 pages
..." upon the mountainous ruins, among the flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous blooming roses, which are extended in ever-winding labyrinths upon...platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air." The thickets of roses which embosomed the poet, and which perhaps his mind half created, had left no... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 508 pages
...nature impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends. This Poem was chiefiy written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of...immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate,... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...residing at Borne, he wrote his notable classic drama of " Prometheus Unbound." " This poem," he says, " was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...platforms, and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright, blue sky of Home, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate,... | |
 | Octavian Blewitt - 1856 - 428 pages
...favourite haunt of the poet Shelley. In the preface to the ' Prometheus Unbound ' he says, " This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Borne, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate,... | |
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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... 
