 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...Contention ; Pain was mix'd In all which was served up to him, until, Like to the Pontic monarch of old days, He fed on poisons, and they had no power, But...stars And the quick Spirit of the universe He held his dialogues ; and they did teach To him the magic of their mysteries ; To him the book of Night was open'd... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...Contention ; Pain was mix'd In all which was served up to him, until, Like to the Pontic monarch of old days, (') He fed on poisons, and they had no power,...stars And the quick Spirit of the Universe He held his dialogues ; and they did teach To him the magic of their mysteries ; To him the book of Night was open'd... | |
 | Criticism - 1843 - 644 pages
...was a mark For blight autl desolation,— compassed round With hatred and contention. * * * * ****** He lived Through that which had been death to many...And the quick spirit of the universe, He held his dialogues ; and they did teach To bun the magic of their mystery." * * * • i In those wild years... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 456 pages
...him ; he was a mark For blight and desolation, compass'd round Wild Hatred and Contention. . — — he lived Through that which had been death to many men, And made him friends of mountains; with the slurs And the quick Spirit of the Universe He held his dialogues ; arid they did teach To him the magic... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...contention : pain was mix'd In all which was served up to him, until, Like to the Pontic monarch of old days, He fed on poisons, and they had no power, —...men, And made him friends of mountains : with the stare And the quick spirit of the universe He held his dialogues ; and they did teach To him the magic... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...contention : pain was mix'd In all which was served up to him, until, Like to the Pontic monarch of old days, He fed on poisons, and they had no power, —...nutriment : he lived Through that which had been death to niany men, And made him friends of mountains : with the stars And the quick spirit of the universe... | |
 | Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 pages
...hastened to London to acquaint his Juliet with the realisation of his fondest hopes. CHAPTER V. He made him friends of mountains ; with the stars And the quick Spirit of the Universe He held his dialogues; and they did teach To him the magic of their mysteries. — BYRON. LORD HEWISTON wrote to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...Contention ; Pain was mixed In all which was served up to him, until, Like to the Pontic monarch of old days, He fed on poisons, and they had no power, But...stars And the quick Spirit of the Universe He held his dialogues ! and they did teach To him the magic of their mysteries ; To him the book of Night was opened... | |
 | Victor von Arentsschild - English poetry - 1851 - 588 pages
...Contention ; Fain was mix'd In all which was served up to him, until, Like to the Pontic monarch of old days, He fed on poisons, and they had no power, But...stars And the quick Spirit of the Universe He held his dialogues; and they did teach To him the magic of their mysteries; To him the book of Night was open'd... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...contention : pain was mix'd In all which was served up to him , until, Like to the Pontic monarch of old days, He fed on poisons, and they had no power, —...stars And the quick spirit of the universe He held his dialogues; and they did teach To him the magic of their mysteries: To him the book of night was open'd... | |
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He fed on poisons, and they had no power, But were a kind of nutriment; he lived Through that which had been death to many men, And made him friends of mountains: with the stars... 
