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" Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the... "
The juvenaile poetical library; selected from the works of modern British ... - Page 228
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 192

1900 - 608 pages
....intensity to the moments of fierce action. The splendid apostrophe to Greece in the ' Giaour ' — ' Clime of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain...mountain cave Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave,' has forty lines of unsurpassed beauty and fire, written in the manuscript, as a note tells us, in a...
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The British review and London critical journal

1813 - 574 pages
...wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it...Which gleams — but warms no more its cherished earth !" One great defect in this protracted simile is this, that in the one subject the aspect of death...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 21

1812 - 576 pages
...wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it...heavenly birth — Which gleams — but warms no more its cherish'd earth ! ' p. The Oriental costume is preserved, as might be expected, with admirable fidelity...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 10

1813 - 560 pages
...wanting there. Her's is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; i But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it...birth- — Which gleams — but warms no more its cherish'd earth !' pp. 4, 5. It is difficult not to sympathize with the sensibility which dictated...
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The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volume 5

English literature - 1813 - 580 pages
...parting breath; But beauty with that fearful bkiom, That hue which haunts it to the tombExpression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay,...gleams — but warms no more its cherished earth!'' One great defect in this protracted simile is this, that in the one subject the aspect of death and...
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Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle, Volume 2

1813 - 550 pages
...wanting there. Her's is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it...round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away I Spark of that flame — perchance of heavenly birth — Which gleams — but warms no more its cherieh'd...
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The giaour, a fragment of a Turkish tale

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1813 - 90 pages
...wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; 95 But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it...round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away ! 100 Spark of that flame — perchance of heavenly birth — Which gleams — but warms no more its...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 9-10

English literature - 1813 - 1102 pages
...wanting there. Tier's is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb— Expression's last receding ray, A-gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away ! Spark of that flame—perchance...
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The Port Folio

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...wanting there. Her) ia the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breatli; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb — Expression's last receding pay, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of feeling past away! Spark of that flame...
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The Analectic Magazine, Volume 2

1813 - 566 pages
...parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tombExpression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past awayt Spark of that flame — perchance of heavenly birth — Whkh gleams — but warms no more its...
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