A wandering mass of shapeless flame, A pathless comet, and a curse, The menace of the universe ; Still rolling on with innate force, Without a sphere, without a course, A bright deformity on high, The monster of the upper sky ! J 1 88 POETRY OF BYRON. Manfred: A Dramatic Poem - Sida 11efter George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 80 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 sidor
...arrived— and it became A wandering mass of shapeless name, A pathless comet, and a curse, The même-1 With some ffiint hope his alter'd lay May sing these...am indeed unMest : On me can thus thy forehead lowe bom — Thou, worm ! whom 1 obey and scorn — Forced by a power (which is not thine, And lent thee... | |
| 1847 - 518 sidor
...to agony, its very existence to an insufferable evil. It will become " A wandering mass of hopeless flame, A pathless comet and a curse; The menace of...innate force, Without a sphere, without a course." To prevent such ruin, God, blessed be his name, has written out its law, and enjoined obedience by... | |
| 1847 - 112 sidor
...irregular wisp of cloud to a simple spherical luminosity, or a strongly defined scimitar-shaped aspect. " A pathless comet, and a curse, The menace of the universe;...innate force, Without a sphere, without a course." We believe it is generally understood that Halley was the first to foretel the precise periodical return... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 sidor
...at Rome Aug. 5th, and passed its perihelion Nov. 16th. The fictitiousness of the representation, " A pathless comet, and a curse, The menace of the universe...innate force. Without a sphere, without a course," has thus been demonstrated, and these bodies proved to be constituent members of our system, obedient... | |
| 1848 - 812 sidor
..."A wandering таю of shapeless flame, A pathless comet and a curte, The menace of the univer«e, Still rolling on with innate force. Without a sphere, without a course, Л bright deformity on high, The monster of the upper sky ! " Such has been the effects of this system... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1849 - 348 sidor
...experience of those who in youth completed their course. The poet has well described his own career : " A wandering mass of shapeless flame, A pathless comet...bright deformity on high, The monster of the upper sky !" X 9. In holy writ we read of those who are " raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame... | |
| 1854 - 672 sidor
...each occasion proving, by its peaceful passage, and quiet, though swift departure, that the lines — A pathless comet, and a curse, The menace of the universe; Still lolliag oa with innate force, Without a sphere, without a coarse : are too fictitious even for the... | |
| Charles Henry Knox - 1852 - 928 sidor
...comet, and repeated the lines, — " The hour arrived, aud it became, A shapeless mass of wandering flame, A pathless comet, and a curse, The menace of the universe." In short, I was afflicted with a Ninaphobia, that dim, uncomfortable presentiment of something coming,... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 350 sidor
...experience of those who in youth completed their course. The poet has well described his own + career : "A wandering mass of shapeless flame, A pathless comet...deformity on high, The + monster of the upper sky I" " 239 be disclosed ; but there is a passage which none can fear to apply. " Those that are wise,... | |
| William Cooper Scott - 1853 - 338 sidor
...of its own sphere, and binding all in harmony around a common centre, are perverted so as to form " A wandering mass of shapeless flame, A pathless comet...deformity on high, The monster of the upper sky.* This fatal perversity is seen, not only in the character of lawlessness sometimes assumed by men of... | |
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