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" Who hath not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess The might — the majesty of Loveliness? "
The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany - Page 40
1814
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Isidora; or, The adventures of a Neapolitan, a novel, by the old author, in ...

John Richard Digby Beste - 1841 - 958 pages
...self-conceit, he slowly followed his master into the house of death. CHAPTER IX. OUR HEROINE. Who has not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly rny ? Who doth not feel, until hit aching sight Fajnts into dimness with its own delight, His changing...
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The Nun, and Other Poems

Ann Richter - 1841 - 204 pages
...ear the wild farewell, PART SECOND. V " Soft, as the memory of buried love, Pure, as the prayer that childhood wafts above, Was she— the daughter of that rude old Chief." llyiioN's BKIDB OF ABTDOS. MORNING, through a misty veil, Beam'd on the landscape cold and pale ; Light...
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Book of the Poets: The Modern Poets of the Nineteenth Century

American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...dreams Elysian, And paints the lost on earth revived iu heaven; Soft, as the memory of buried love ; Pure, as the prayer which childhood wafts above ;...doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart, confess The might — the majesty...
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The works of lord Byron, with notes by T. Moore [and others].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...dreams Elysian, And points the lost on Earth revived in Heaven ; Soft, as the memory of buried love ; Pure, as the prayer which Childhood wafts above ;...grief. Who hath not proved how feebly words essay i To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into...
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The book of the chronicles; or, Winter evening tales of Westmorland, Volume 1

John Close - 1842 - 290 pages
...itself—they sink not into the soul like the music of that lover's voice and lute—as Byron sings :— ' Who hath not proved how feebly words essay, To fix...doth not feel, until his failing Sight, Faints into dimness with its own delight; His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess, The might—the majesty...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 20

1842 - 796 pages
...pictorial illustration," which Byron so beautifully confesses of his own art 1— " Who hath not felt how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray ?" Yes, the origin of half our interest and all our romance, as connected with the vivid descriptions...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...— the daughter of that rude old Chief, Who met the maid with tears — but not of grief. Who had not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark...heavenly ray ? Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Famts into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess The might —...
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Results of Reading

James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...Moria pur quando vriol, non e bisogna mutar ni faccia, ni voce, per esser un angelo. Who hath not felt how feebly words essay To fix one spark of beauty's...ray ? Who doth not. feel, until his failing sight Faint into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess, The might —...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 548 pages
...— the daughter of that rude old Chief, Who met the maid with tears — but not of grief. Who had not proved how feebly words essay To fix one spark of Beauty's heavenly ray 1 **^ Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing...
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The Giaour, and the Bride of Abydos. [With a Memoir of the Author.]

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1844 - 186 pages
...dreams Elysian, And paints the lost on Earth revived in Heaven ; Soft — as the memory of buried love ; Pure — as the prayer which Childhood wafts above...doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek — his sinking heart confess The might — the majesty...
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