| William Wetmore Story - 1866 - 334 pages
...says Shelley, in his preface to ' Prometheus Unbound,' " was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruin of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades...immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The brightblue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate,... | |
| William Rounseville Alger - 1867 - 420 pages
...glorious Titan he describes, he wrote his Prometheus Unbound. He composed it, in his own language, " on the mountainous ruins of the baths of Caracalla, among...platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air." If the objects of nature were ever made the beloved playmates of a mortal, that mortal was Shelley.... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1869 - 566 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 Koine, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 448 pages
...intellectual nature impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best und noblest ends. This Poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of...extended in ever-winding labyrinths upon its immense Elatforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The right blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1871 - 742 pages
...the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extending in overwinding labyrinths upon its 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,... | |
| 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,...extended in everwinding labyrinths upon its immense platform and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The light blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the rigorous... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 646 pages
...the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate,... | |
| Mrs. Hugh Roy Scott - 1875 - 334 pages
...and majestic ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, where Byron and Keats loved to wander, and among whose "flowery glades and thickets of odoriferous, blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platform, and dizzy arches, suspended into the air," Shelley... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...published Prometheus Unbound, which he had written while resident in Rome. ' This poem,' he says, ' The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate,... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...says, 'was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flower)- pirit loves Its country and its God ! The Graves of...filled one home with glee ; Their graves are severed, The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate,... | |
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