 | Ireland - 1861 - 878 pages
...citation ; it is too well known to every lover of English literature. Milman's"Belvidere Apollo," " Mid the dim twilight of the laurel grove, Too fair to worship, too divine to love," is to a certain extent classical. Faber's "Knights of St. John" is familiar to many readers, having... | |
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...the work of man. For mild he seemed, as in Elysian bowers, Wasting in careless ease the joyous hours; Haughty as bards have sung, with princely sway Curbing...laurel grove, Too fair to worship, too divine to love. IL PENSEEOSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred! How little you bestead,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1871 - 544 pages
...lines : — " For mild he seemed, as in Elysian bowers, Wasting, in careless ease, the joyous hours ; Haughty, as bards have sung, with princely sway Curbing...dreamy sleep By holy maid, on Delphi's haunted steep." All, all divine ; no struggling muscle glows, Through heaving vein no mantling life-blood flows, But,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1871 - 548 pages
...lines : — " For mild he seemed, as in Elysian bowers, Wasting, in careless ease, the joyous hours ; Haughty, as bards have sung, with princely sway Curbing...dreamy sleep By holy maid, on Delphi's haunted steep." All, all divine ; no struggling muscle glows, Through heaving vein no mantling life-blood flows, But,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1871 - 552 pages
...Wasting, in careless ease, the joyous hours ; Haughty, as bards have sung, with princely sway Carbing the fierce flame-breathing steeds of day ; Beauteous,...dreamy sleep By holy maid, on Delphi's haunted steep." All, all divine ; no struggling muscle glows, Through heaving vein no mantling life-blood flows, But,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
...the work of man. For mild he seemed as in Elysian bowers Wasting in careless ease the joyous hours; Haughty, as bards have sung, with princely sway Curbing...trance With more than reverence gazed the Maid of Franco. Day after day the love-sick dreamer stood With him alone, nor thought it solitude ; To cherish... | |
 | Thomas Craddock - 1873 - 424 pages
...other members. For mild he seemed, as in Elysian bowers Wasting in careless ease the joyous hours ; Haughty as bards have sung, with princely sway, Curbing...laurel grove Too fair to worship, too divine to love. * Pinel relates, in his work on insanity, that a young maiden conceived a passion for this statue ;... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Rome (Italy) - 1874 - 718 pages
...work of man. For mild he seem'd, as in Elysian bowers, Wasting in careless case the joyous hours ; Haughty, as bards have sung, with princely sway Curbing...laurel grove, Too fair to worship, too divine to love." Henry Hart Milman. In the second portico, between Canova's statues and the Antinous, is (No. 43) a... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...hung, in thy tongue, what anguish I I was cured. MARTIAL. was beautiful, 'd the white rose MATURIN. Beauteous as vision seen in dreamy sleep By holy maid...laurel grove: Too fair to worship, too divine to love ! MILMAN. 5 BEAUTY. Her grace of motion, and of look, the smooth And swimming majesty of step and tread,... | |
 | 1876 - 844 pages
...archer-god * — For mild he seemed, as in Elysium bowers Wasting in careless case the joyous hours : Haughty as bards have sung, with princely sway Curbing the fierce flame-breathing steeds of day : * " A dream of love, Shaped by some solitary nymph, whose breast Longed for a deathless lover from... | |
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For mild he seem'd, as in Elysian bowers, Wasting in careless ease the joyous hours ; Haughty, as bards have sung, with princely sway Curbing the fierce flame-breathing steeds of day ; Beauteous as vision seen in dreamy sleep By holy maid on Delphi's... 
