To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy Power which seems omnipotent ; To love, and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates... Lives of the Illustrious - Page 951856Full view - About this book
| Dinah Maria Craik - 1859 - 424 pages
...beloved one, and of Lucia, the young, devoted dreamer, mingled into one. CHAPTER IX. To suffer woes that Hope thinks infinite, To forgive wrongs darker than death or night, To love and bear, to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates, — This is... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1863 - 542 pages
...Shelley wished to inculcate that the highest virtues of the creature are purely passive : " To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite, To forgive wrongs...creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates ; Neither to change, nor flatter, nor repent, — This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great,... | |
| Great Britain - 1863 - 542 pages
...Shelley wished to inculcate that the highest virtues of the creature are purely passive : " To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite, To forgive wrongs...love and bear, to hope till Hope creates From its owu wreck the thing it contemplates ; Neither to change, nor flatter, nor repent, — This, like thy... | |
| Englishmen - Great Britain - 1863 - 912 pages
...good work of the advancement of human virtue and happiness, and stimulates us ' To love and hear — to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.'" " The most extraordinary production from the pen of Shelley," our anonymous critic continues, " is... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 616 pages
...fluent. Shelley never makes his Titan flinch. He stands there as the sublime of endurance : " To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs...omnipotent; To love and bear; to hope till Hope creates From ita own wreck the thing it contemplates ; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent." This is grand... | |
| 1864 - 530 pages
...» * » These are the spells by which to re-assume An empire o'er the disentangled doom. To suS'er woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ' * * * * * To love and bear. . . . Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and free ; This like thy glory, Titan! is to... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 854 pages
...length, These are the spells by which to re-assume An empire o'er the disentangled doom. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs...creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates : NOTE ON THE PROMETHEUS UNBOUND. RY THE EDITOR. Os the 12th of March, 1S1S, Shelley quitted England,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 834 pages
...length, These are the spells by which to re-assume An empire o'er the disentangled doom. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs...creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates : NOTE ON THE PROMETHEUS UNBOUNIX BY THE EDITOB. On the 12th of March, 1818, Shelley quitted England,... | |
| william harrison ainsworth - 1865 - 516 pages
...OF " GRANVILLE DE VIGNE," " 8TRATHMORE," &C. ••• BOOK THE FOURTH. IN THE ISLES OF THE SYRENS. To love and bear, to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates. SHELLEY. Esprit, philosophic, succes, gloire, renommee;—qu'etes vous aupres d'un baiser!—M i KA... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 pages
...length, These nre the spells by which to re-assume An empire o'er the disentangled doom. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy Pow r, which seeins omnipotent; To love, and bear: to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the... | |
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