 | 1858 - Liczba stron: 784
...without death, to die. This pensive close recalls Shelley's fine opening lines in lantht : — ' ' How wonderful is death ! Death, and his brother Sleep ; One pale as yonder waning moon, A\ ith lips of lurid blue : The other, rosy as the morn, When throned on ocean's wava. It blushes o'er... | |
 | Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - Liczba stron: 366
...ocean's wave, It blushes o'er the world ; Yet both so passing wonderful :" he has altered to — " How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep ! One, pale as yonder wan and horned moon, With lips of lurid blue ; The other, glowing like the vital day When, throned... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - Liczba stron: 636
...alike, who live by breath, In thee, and in thy brother Death." PHILONAX LOVEKIN : Andronicia, (1661.) " How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep...blushes o'er the world : Yet both so passing wonderful !" SHELLEY : Quctn ilab. " It was a dream. . . . But who conducted me ? That gentle Power Gentle as... | |
 | Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Leonard Francis Simpson - 1859 - Liczba stron: 294
...leads to sleep, and sleep brings dreams. Shelley's beautiful lines will rise before the reader : — " How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother SLEEP...blushes o'er the world : Yet both so passing wonderful ! " But to return to Savarin. We have now reached the last limits of humanity. For the man who sleeps... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1859 - Liczba stron: 312
...been written after seeing these sculptures : " How wonderful is Death— Death and his brother SlSep! One pale as yonder waning moon, With lips of lurid...blushes o'er the world ; Yet both so passing wonderful!" Such was Thorwaldsen—the son of a poor ship-carpenter from Iceland—a man, who, even when courted... | |
 | 1859 - Liczba stron: 558
...celebrated its occult power. Shelley in an episode of lanthe, and Wordsworth in a characteristic Sonnet: "How wonderful is Death, Death, and his brother Sleep...other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean's wave, Its blushes o'er the world: Yet both so passing wonderful ! Hath then the gloomy power Whose reign... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson - 1860 - Liczba stron: 656
...favorite agents of Hygeia in the preservation of health. HOW, WHEN, AND WHERE WE SLEEP. "How wonderful 13 death, Death and his brother sleep ! One, pale as...blushes o'er the world ; Yet both so passing wonderful !" The range between rosy red and lurid bine is the scale of life and death. One of the most powerful... | |
 | 1861 - Liczba stron: 858
...splendid poetry. The comparison between sleep and death, with which the poem opens, is fine: — " How wonderful is Death, — Death and his brother Sleep One pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lucid blue, The other rosy as the morn ; When throned on ocean's wave It blushes o'er the world, —... | |
 | James McGrigor Allan - 1862 - Liczba stron: 300
...spot, beholding a fine subject for the pencil, while these lines of Shelley occurred to my memory. " How wonderful is Death, Death, and his brother, Sleep!...blushes o'er the world : Yet both so passing wonderful !" At first I thought of making a rapid sketch ere she should wake, but as I gazed on the lovely sleeper,... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - Liczba stron: 780
...however, to his comparison of Sleep and Death, and his description of Night, hoth in " Queen Mab." How wonderful is Death, — Death and his brother...lips of lurid blue ; The other, rosy as the morn When thron'd on ocean's wave, It blushes o'er the world : Yet both so passing wonderful !" How beautiful... | |
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How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep ! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue ; The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean's wave It blushes o'er the world : Yet both so passing wonderful... 
