 ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES MY spirit is too weak ; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep,...  Sonnets of this Century - Pagina 117geredigeerd door - 1886 - 333 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - 1999 - 306 pagina’s
...pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy...dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud; So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - 2003 - 228 pagina’s
...pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep, That I have not the cloudy...Time — with a billowy main, A sun, a shadow of a magnitude.41 Keats seems to say that a sense of endless cultural distance, going along with not knowing... | |
 | George Dekker - 2005 - 342 pagina’s
...Seeing the Elgin Marbles": Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart undescribable feud; So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That...mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude Wasting of old time—with a billowy main— A sun—a shadow of a magnitude. 47 The sculptures' value as synecdoche... | |
 | Eva Oppermann - 2006 - 302 pagina’s
...pinacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy...mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude Wasting of all time- with a billowy main, A sun, a shadow of a magnitude. Ever since Greece became independent... | |
 | Peter L. Shillingsburg - 2006 - 190 pagina’s
...Editing," Literary Research Newsletter 5 (1980), 31-45. CHAPTER 5 Victorian fiction: shapes shaping reading Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round...with a billowy main, A sun, a shadow of a magnitude. Keats, "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time" (1817) Given the general, perhaps abstract,... | |
 | Philip Shaw - 2006 - 192 pagina’s
...pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy...dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud; So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude... | |
 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 362 pagina’s
...compromising example of the Elgin Marbles he had first seen at the British Museum in 1817 when they caused him "a most dizzy pain / That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude / Wasting of old Time" ("On Seeing the Elgin Marbles," lines 11-13). Finally, and by way of contrast with Keats, there is... | |
 | Andrew Franta - 2007 - 15 pagina’s
...pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy...dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud; So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude... | |
 | Harry C. Rutledge - 2008 - 174 pagina’s
...there is the feeling of Keats himself when he first saw the Parthenon sculptures and could only feel a dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur with the...with a billowy main, A sun, a shadow of a magnitude. ("On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time") Frederick Nicklaus began his travels in the early... | |
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