 TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise ; What was thy pity's recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can...  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 152by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Charles Mills Gayley - English literature - 1893 - 608 pages
...Prometheus has become the ensample of magnanimous endurance, and of resistance to oppression. " Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...show, The suffocating sense of woe, Which speaks but in.its loneliness, And then is jealous lest the sky Should have a listener, nor will sigh Until its... | |
 | William Hyde Appleton - English poetry - 1893 - 420 pages
...perchance, she may appease his shade. Page 172. Prometheus alone. Compare Byron's lines : — " Titan ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...agony they do not show ; The suffocating sense of woe. Thy godlike crime was to be kind ; To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness,... | |
 | William Leslie Davidson - Theism - 1893 - 528 pages
...others, the more intensely does he suffer himself. His pity's recompense is that of Prometheus :— A silent suffering and intense ; The rock, the vulture,...but in its loneliness, And then is jealous lest the skyShould have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. (Byron, Prometheus.) So that,... | |
 | William Hyde Appleton - English poetry - 1893 - 418 pages
...perchance, she may appease his shade. Page 172. Prometheus alone. Compare Byron's lines : — " Titan ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the yulture, and the chain ; All that the proud can feel of pain ; The agony they do not show ; The suffocating... | |
 | William Hyde Appleton (ed.) - Greek poetry - 1893 - 420 pages
...Wrekiu's crest of light. Till broad and fierce the stars came forth On Ely's stately fane, M .•-•»» A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture,...agony they do not show ; The suffocating sense of woe. Thy godlike crime was to be kind ; To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness,... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - English poetry - 1893 - 652 pages
...Prometheus has become the ensample of magnanimous endurance, and of resistance to oppression. HI '' "Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise, 1 See Commentary, § 25. What was thy pity's recompense? A silent suffering, and intense; The rock,... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - English poetry - 1893 - 654 pages
...Prometheus has become the ensample of magnanimous endurance, and of resistance to oppression. " Titan ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise, 1 See Commentary, } 25. \r CLASSIC MYTHS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. What was thy pity's recompense? A silent... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - English literature - 1893 - 642 pages
...Prometheus has become the ensample of magnanimous endurance, and of resistance to oppression. " Titan ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise, 1 See Commentary, § 25. L What was thy pity's recompense? A silent suffering, and intense; The rock,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. PROMETHEUS. Titan ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...and intense ; The rock, the vulture, and the chain, AH that the proud can feel of pain, The agony they do not show, The suffocating sense of woe, Which... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 860 pages
...trusted to thy billows far and near, And lai^ny hand upon thy mane — as I do here. >^PROMETHEUS. Titan) to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...pity's recompense? A silent suffering, and intense ; i The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can feel of pain, , The agony they do... | |
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