 Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped...  A New Library of Poetry and Song - Seite 655von William Cullen Bryant - 1877Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball - 1897 - 408 Seiten
...passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things iA. P. Stanley, DD The hand that mocked and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away." The proverbial poetic license must, of course, be accorded to Shelley's... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison - 1897 - 246 Seiten
...ruler accustomed to be feared and obeyed. What more did the traveller observe about this statue ? " And on the pedestal these words appear : My name is...Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." Yes, Robinson Crusoe's father was right : we need not envy those... | |
 | William King Baker - 1898 - 610 Seiten
...wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away." Shelley's lines are not quite correct, as the ruined statue lies... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 492 Seiten
...lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, (stamped on these lifeless things,) The hand that...Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. 1817. PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES. LISTEN, listen, Mary mine, To the... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1898 - 496 Seiten
...lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, (stamped on these lifeless things,) The hand that...Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. 1817. PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES. LISTEN, listen, Mary mine, To the... | |
 | Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) - 1899 - 920 Seiten
...its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things. The band that mocked them and the heart that fed And on the...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away." Queen's University Examinations: April, 1899. HONOURS. English.... | |
 | Hampstead Antiquarian and Historical Society - 1900 - 162 Seiten
...wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those [Missions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. — SHELLEV, Vol. III., p. 24, WM Rossetti's Edition, 1881. This... | |
 | Herbert Weir Smyth - 1900 - 772 Seiten
...the interest of truth than of vain-gloriousness. Cf. i. 4 and Shelley's ' Ozymandias of Egypt ' : " And on the pedestal these words appear : | ' My name...that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, | The lone and level sands stretch far away." 1. Since Kleobulos was a Karian, vewrav may have its sting. Line... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 494 Seiten
...well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed ; And on the pedestal...level sands stretch far away. Percy Bysshe Shelley SESOSTRIS Sole Lord of Lords and very King of Kings, He sits within the desert, carved in stone ; Inscrutable,... | |
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