 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...we would read the fate Of men and empires, — Ч is to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be créale In us such love and reverence from afar, Thu fortune, fame, power, life, have named iliemsclre*... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...and empires, — 't is t/) be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great. Our destinies o'crleap & too deep : — All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars, to the lull'd lake and... | |
 | 1847 - 810 pages
...aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for they are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such...fame, power, life, have named themselves a star." — but they go no further, and are contented with this impassioned yet cold declamation. Others there... | |
 | Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...on the following stanza,2 which should be often repeated. Exercise. STILLNESS OF NIGHT. — Byron " All heaven and earth are still, — though not in...feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep : — All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars to the lulled lake, and... | |
 | George W. Burnap - Women - 1848 - 358 pages
...and over the lake of Geneva, has perhaps, for thrilling intensity of feeling, never been equalled. " All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep,...feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep : — All heaven and earth are still : from the high host Of stars, to the lull'd lake and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...toe would read the fate of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, that, in our aspirations to be great, our destinies o'erleap their mortal state,...FORTUNE, FAME, POWER, LIFE, have named themselves a STAR. 703. A few hours more, and she will move in stately grandeur on, cleaving her path majestic through... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...on the following stanza,2 which should be often repeated. Exercise. STILLNESS OF NIGHT. — Byron " All heaven and earth are still, — though not in...feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep : — All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars to the lulled lake, and... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...on the following stanza,8 which should be often repeated. Exercise. STILLNESS OF NISEI. — Byron " All heaven and earth are still, — though not in...feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep : — All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars to the lulled lake, and... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state,...fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star. All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most... | |
 | English literature - 1850 - 662 pages
...leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state,...fortune, fame, power, life have named themselves a star." Childe Harold, iii. 88. " 'Tis midnight ; on the mountain's brow The cold round moon shines deeply... | |
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Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven! If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, —'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye... 
