 | Jane Austen - Literary Collections - 2006 - 56 pages
...breathing -world, / An erring spirit from another hurled; / A thing of dark imaginings', yet possessed of 'more capacity for love than earth /Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth'; and in The Corsair, -which depicts the 'villain' -who 'gainst that passion vainly still he strove',... | |
 | 232 pages
...A thing of dark imaginings, that shap'd By choice the perils he by chance escap'd; 15o But 'scap'd in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would half...birth, His early dreams of good outstripp'd the truth, 155 And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth; With thought of years in phantom chase misspent, And... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 606 pages
...half exult and half regret : 320 i. gayest of the gay.—[MS.] ii. an inward scorn of all. — [MS.] With more capacity for love than Earth Bestows on...of mortal mould and birth. His early dreams of good outstripped the truth,1 And troubled Manhood followed baffled Youth ; With thought of years in phantom... | |
 | Northrop Frye - Literary Collections - 2005 - 465 pages
...another hurl'd; A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped; But 'scaped in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret . . . But haughty still and loth himself to blame, He call'd on Nature's self to share the shame, And... | |
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A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped ; But 'scaped in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret : With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth... 
