 It was not even the dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness — without a place; There were no stars — no earth — no time — No check — no change — no good — no crime — But silence, and a stirless...  The Quarterly Review - Page 2021817Full view - About this book
 | William Torrens McCullagh Torrens - 1878 - 456 pages
...day, But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness without a place. A silence and a stiriess breath That neither was of life or death. A sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless. DANGEROUS ILLNESS. 379 Books, old and new, but especially the former, he devoured insatiably as ever... | |
 | William Torrens McCullagh Torrens - 1878 - 444 pages
...day, But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness without a place. A silence and a stirless breath That neither was of life or death. A sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless. Books, old and new, but especially the former, he devoured insatiably as ever—with his eyes: but... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...absorbing space, And fixedness — without a place ; There were no stars — no earth — no time — 245 No check — no change — no good — no crime —...silence, and a stirless breath Which neither was of life nor death ; A sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless ! 250 A light broke... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy ahsorhing space, And fixedness — without a place : odest way : Suppress, then, some slight feminine diseases...heroes as Heaven pleases. x. Fair Adeline, the mo hreath Which neither was of life nor death ; A sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, houndless, mute, and... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 704 pages
...mind seeks relief in opposites, and the stillness of solitary confinement, where there are — * * * " No stars, — no earth, — no time, No check, —...no crime, — But silence and a stirless breath," — tends to produce hallucinations of sound. While noise and sound usually destroy or interrupt silence,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight ; Hut vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness, without a place : — and St. Nicholas too. And then in a twinkling 1 stirlcss breath Which neither was of life nor death : — A sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, boundless,... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - Readers - 1881 - 220 pages
...dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight ; But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness, without a place ; There were no stars, no earth, no time, No check,...silence, and a stirless breath Which neither was of life nor death — A sea of stagnant idleness, VI. A light broke in upon my brain — It was the carol of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1881 - 326 pages
...dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness — without a place ; There were no stars — no earth — -no time —...silence, and a stirless breath Which neither was of life nor death ; A sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless ! A light broke in upon... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight ; But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness, without a place ; Down the dark future, through long generations, The...cease ; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibration nor death ; A sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless ! x. A light broke in... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 342 pages
...dungeon-light, So hateful to my heavy sight, But vacancy absorbing space, And fixedness — without a place ; There were no stars — no earth — no time — No...silence, and a stirless breath Which neither was of life nor death ; A sea of stagnant idleness, Blind, boundless, mute, and motionless ! A light broke in upon... | |
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