 Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed Who loved, who suffered countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or sealed within the iron hills ? No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord....  The Works of the Duke of Argyll: Containing, The Reign of Law, The Unity of ... - Pagina 226di George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1884 - 671 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1877 - 506 pagine
...about the desert dust, Or sealed within the iron hills? No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tear each other in their slime, Were mellow music matched with him. O life as futile, then as frail ! 0 for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress... | |
 | 1893 - 840 pagine
...about the desert dust, Or seal'd within the iron hills ? NII more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tear each other in their slime, Were mellow music match' d with him. Yet it was George Eliot's peculiar glory that, accepting the fact, so terrible at... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1855 - 540 pagine
...of sense, is one of the finest in poetry : — "No more? a monster, then a dream, A discord. Dragona of the prime, That tear each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him." We find, in a poem by Coleridge, which is not, we think, very well known, a general... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1860 - 540 pagine
...pleasures of sense, ia '«ne of the finest in poetry : — " No more ? a monster, then a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tear each other in their slime, Were mellow music mntch'd with him." We find, in a poem by Coleridge, which is not, we think, very well known, a general... | |
 | 1877 - 824 pagine
...about the desert dust Or sealed within the iron hilla ? No more ?—A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime That tear each other in their slime Were mellow music matched with him. A life as futile, then, as frail I 0 for thy voice to soothe and bless I What hope of answer or redress... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1877 - 828 pagine
...the desert dust Or sealed within the iron hills ? No more ? — A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime That tear each other in their slime Were mellow music matched with him. A life as futile, then, as frail I 0 for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer or redress... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pagine
...about the desert dust, Or seal'd within the iron in i is ? No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tear each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him. 0 life as fui île. then, as frail ! О for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What... | |
 | Samue Harris (D.D.) - 1892 - 606 pagine
...of Argyll intimates, there is a certain literal truth in the comparison of man with the dragons : " Dragons of the prime, That tear each other in their slime, Were mellow music matched with him." The most horrible and loathsome brutes show no tendency to action contrary to their own nature and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1883 - 740 pagine
...about the desert dust, Or seal'd within the iron hills ? No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tear each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him0 life 3s futile, then, as frail I O for thy voice to sooth and bless ! What hope of... | |
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