The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. Pencillings by the Way - Page 84by Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1842 - 464 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1833 - 636 pages
...wall, and stones, now mouldering and desolate, which formed the circuit of ancient Rome. The cemetry is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. " It might make one live in love with death." says Shelley, " to think that we should he huried in so sweet a place." The... | |
| Leigh Hunt - Authors - 1828 - 512 pages
...cemetery he speaks of in the preface to his Elegy on the death of his young friend, as calculated to " make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place." A like tenderness of patience, in one who possessed a like energy, made Mr. Keats say... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...towers, now mouldering and desolate, which formed the circuit of ancien t Rome. The cemetery is я n for our grief, as if it had * mass'd in death,...are blue, and fields are greeii, Eveniug must ushe sweet a place. The genius of the lamented person to whose memory I have dedicated these unworthy verses,... | |
| J. D. Sinclair - Italy - 1829 - 352 pages
...walls and towers, now mouldering and desolate, which formed the circuit of ancient Rome. The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter...It might make one in love with death, to think that they should be buried in so sweet a place. " CHAPTER X. ROME CONTINUED. THERE are many modes of killing... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 828 pages
...space among the ruins" (of ancient Rome,) " covered in winter with violets and daisies;" adding — "It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place." I have allowed myself to abridge the circumstances as reported by Mr. Trelawuey and... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1835 - 122 pages
...cemetery he speaks of in the preface to his Elegy on the death of his young friend, as calculated to ' make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place." — The generous reader will be glad to hear that the remains of Mr. Shelley were attended... | |
| Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...read his own lament over Keats, who sleeps just below, at the foot of the hill. The cemetery is rudelr formed into three terraces, with walks between ; and...with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.' If Shelley had chosen his own grave at the time, he would have selected the very spot... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...walls and towers, now mouldering and desolate, which formed the circuit of ancient Rome. The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter...with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. The genius of the lamented person to whose memory I have dedicated these nnworlhy verses,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...walls and towers, now mouldering and desolate, which formed the eircuit of aneient Rome. The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter...with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. The genins of the lamented person to whose memory I have dedieated these unworthy verses,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...eireuit of anelent Rome. The eemetery is an open spaee among the ruins, eovered in winter with violeta and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a plaee. The genins of the lamented person to whose memory I have dedieated these unworthy verses,... | |
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