Enter: its grandeur overwhelms thee not; And why? it is not lessen'd; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality; and thou Shalt one day, if found... The Tourist in Italy - Page 154by Thomas Roscoe - 1831 - 271 pagesFull view - About this book
| Europe - 1878 - 704 pages
...Majesty, IWer.iîlory. Strength, and Beauty, all are uisled In this eternal urkofwondiip nndffiled. " Enter: its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ! it is not lessen'd; but thy mind, К x pu » ded by tht' Benins of the spot. Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all arc aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled. CLV. ord: Command you no refreshment ? Lioni. Nought, save sleep. Which wil ; hut thy mind, Expanded hy the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit ahode... | |
| English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...Majesty Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship uudefiled Enter: its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why?...not lessen'd ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius cf the spot, LORD BYRON. 447 Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined... | |
| Rome - 1881 - 768 pages
...ark of worship undefiled. "Knter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? it is not lessen' d ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit alx>de wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality ; and th«m Shalt one day, if found worthy,... | |
| William Adolphus Wheeler - Allusions - 1881 - 600 pages
...eternal ark of worship undefilcd. Enter: its eramleur overwhelms thee not; And why? It is not kssened; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal. Byron. And while Rtill stands The austere Pantheon, into heaven shall A dome [<SV. Peter's}, its image,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 610 pages
...worship undefiled. CLv. Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why f it is not lessen 'd ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown eolossal, and ean only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality ; and thou... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 308 pages
...Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled. CLV Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why?...genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only fmd (Ephesian's miracle) ; celui même que brûla Érostrate. 1. Sophia. La mosquée de Sainte-Sophie,... | |
| Thomas Henry Clark - 1883 - 204 pages
...In tbe words of Byron, Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not : And •why ? It is not lessened ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot,...wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality. On the right the bronze seated statue of St. Peter, though not ve'ry large, arrests attention, with... | |
| Europe - 1883 - 414 pages
...it has undergone. The fagade was built by Galilei, in 1734.$ The cloisters of the adjacent Monastery Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortal,ty. " * " A St. Pierre, le pape est souverain pontife. A St J. Lattran il est eveque de Rome."... | |
| Theodore Strong Van Dyke - Deer hunting - 1883 - 408 pages
...St. Peter's at Rome, Byron says: " Its grandeur overwhelms thee not; And why ? It is not lessened, but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal." Who has not felt this when among the mountains, and wondered at the ever-changing deceptiveness of... | |
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