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" Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the Spirit of the spot... "
Memoirs of Eminent Etonians: With Notices of the Early History of Eton College - Page 489
by Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 504 pages
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...And where its wrecks like shntter'd mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses drees The bones of Desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the...of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of preen access, Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flowers along the grass...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...And where its wrecks like shatter'd mountains rise. And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses, drese The bones of Desolation's nakedness. Pass, till the...over the dead, A light of laughing flowers along the gram is spread. 411 SHELLEY'S POETICAL WORKS. And gray walla moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds,...
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The republic of letters, [ed.] by A. Whitelaw, Volume 3

Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 pages
...grave, the city, and the wilderness ; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's...of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds like slow flre upon a hoary brand ; And one keen...
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The Republic of Letters: A Selection, in Poetry and Prose, from ..., Volume 3

Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 460 pages
...grave, the city, and the wilderness ; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's...of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds like slow fire upon a hoary hrand ; And one keen...
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Pencillings by the Way, Volumes 1-3

Nathaniel Parker Willis - Europe - 1835 - 1350 pages
...an infant's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. " And gray walls moulder round, on which dull time Feeds like slow fire upon a hoary brand ; And one keen pyramid, with wedge sublime, Pavilioning the dust of him who plann'd This...
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The County [afterw.] Country miscellany, ed. by H. Burgess

Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...feelingly. In the last verses of the elegy, he speaks of it again with the same feeling of its beauty. " The spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to...laughing flowers along the grass is spread. •And gray walls moulder round, on which dull time Feeds like slow fire upon a hoary brand; And one keen...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...rise And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses, dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness. Pass, rill the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access. Where, like an infnnt's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flower* along the grass iť spread And gray walls...
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Thoughts of the times; or, Men and things

Thomas Browne Browne - Absentee landlordism - 1838 - 274 pages
...fanciful comparison of beauty personified to a jewel, and night to an Ethiop : thus Shelley, " And gray walls moulder round, on which dull time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand." Time here is first personified, and afterwards compared to slow fire. Again, says the...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...grave, the eity, and the wilderness : And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's...spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green aceess, Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light of laughing flowersalong the grass isspread....
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...grave, the city, and the wilderness : And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And Howering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's...the dead A light of laughing flowers along the grass isspread. And grevwallsmoulderround, on which dull Time Feeils, like slow fire upon a hoary brand ;...
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