| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - English drama - 1839 - 168 pages
...I. Richelieu's Castle at Ruelle. A Gothic chamber. Moonlight at the window, occasionally obscured. RICHELIEU (reading).* " In silence and at night, the...cloud. When I am dust, my name shall, like a star, Shine through wan space, a glory ; and a prophet Whereby pale seers shall from their aery towers Con... | |
| Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1839 - 172 pages
...Richelieu's Castle at Ruelle — A Gothic chamber — Moonlight at the window, occasionally obscured. RICHELIEU (reading).* " In silence, and at night,...Titan's lust I woo'da goddess, and I clasp a cloud. 10 When I am dust, my name shall, like a star, Shine through wan space, a glory — and a prophet Whereby... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - English drama - 1839 - 172 pages
...That life should soar to nobler ends than power." So sayest thou, sage and sober moralist ! But vvert thou tried ? Sublime philosophy, Thou art the patriarch's...cloud. / When I am dust, my name shall, like a star, Shine through wan space, a glory ; and a prophet Whereby pale seers shall from their aery towers Con... | |
| 1839 - 366 pages
...(reading). 'In silence, and at night, the conscience feels That life should soar to nobler ends and power.' So sayest thou, sage and sober moralist !...By the first step — dull-slumbering on the earth. ***** " Yet are my sins not those of CIRCUMSTANCE, That all-pervading atmosphere, wherein Our spirits,... | |
| William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1839 - 948 pages
...the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven, And bright with beck'niug angel* — but, alas! We see thre, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step— dull-slumbering on the earth. • • • » 7<s " Yet are my sins not those of circumstance, That all-pervading atmosphere, wherein... | |
| 1839 - 648 pages
...Philosophy, Thou art the Patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven, And bright with beck'ning angels—but, alas! We see thee, like the Patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step—dull-slumbering on the earth. I am not happy !—with the Titan's lust I woo'da goddess, and... | |
| Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1839 - 174 pages
...And bright with beck'ning angels — bur, alas ! We see thee, like the Patriarch, but in dreams, Bv the first step — dull-slumbering on the earth. I am not happy! — with the Tilan's hist When I am dust, my name shall, like a star, I woo'da goddess, and I clasp a cloud. 10... | |
| 1840 - 824 pages
...— Sublime Philosophy, Thou art the Patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven, And bright with leck'ning angels — but, alas! We see thee, like the Patriarch,...first step — dull-slumbering on the earth. I am not hnppy ! — with the Titan's lust I woo'da goddess, and I clasp a cloud. When I am dust, my name shall,... | |
| Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1841 - 578 pages
...And bright with beck'ning angels — but, alas ! We see thee, like the Patriarch, but in dreams, Bv the first step — dull-slumbering on the earth. I...Titan's lust I woo'da goddess, and I clasp a cloud. l0 When I am dust, my name shall, like a star, Shine through wan space, a glory — and a prophet Whereby... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...tried ! Sublime philosophy, Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven, And bright with beck'uing angels; but, alas! We see thee, like the patriarch,...cloud. When I am dust, my name shall, like a star, Shine through wan space, a glory ; and a prophet Whereby pale seers shall from their afiry towers Con... | |
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