The English burying-place is a' green slope near the walls, under the pyramidal tomb of Cestius, and is, I think, the most beautiful and solemn cemetery I ever beheld. To see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first visited ! it, with... Publications - Seite 86von Shelley Society - 1886Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 258 Seiten
...shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first visited ! it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees...so it peoples with its wishes vacancy and oblivion. I have told you little about Rome ; but I reserve the Pantheon, and St. Peter's, and the Vatican and... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 394 Seiten
...bright grass, fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the I wind among the leaves of the trees which have overgrown...so it peoples with its wishes vacancy and oblivion. I have told you little about Rome ; but I reserve the Pantheon, and St. Peter's, and the Vatican, and... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 246 Seiten
...shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees...so it peoples with its wishes vacancy and oblivion. I have told you little about Rome ; but I reserve the Pantheon, and St. Peter's, and the Vatican, and... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 Seiten
...shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the, trees...so it peoples with its wishes vacancy and oblivion. I have told you little about Rome ; but I reserve the Pantheon, and St. Peter's, and the Vatican, and... | |
| 1845 - 670 Seiten
...the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees,...overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is sfirring in the sun-warm earth, and to mark the tombs, mostly of women and young people who were buried... | |
| William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 478 Seiten
...sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first saw it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees...were to die, desire the sleep they seem to sleep." About a year before his own death, the place had acquired an additional interest in his eyes, for there... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 Seiten
...shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first visited it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees...so it peoples with its wishes vacancy and oblivion. I have told you little about Rome ; but I reserve the Pantheon, and St. Peter's, and the Vatican, and... | |
| 1847 - 672 Seiten
...sun shining on its bright grass, fresh, when we first saw it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees...were to die, desire the sleep they seem to sleep." About a year before his own death, the place had acquired an additional interest in his eyes ; for... | |
| Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 384 Seiten
...delight to see the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh with dews, and hear the whispering of the winds among the leaves of the trees, which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius !" A plain slab, overhung with parasite plants, and shrubs and flowers, contains the venerated name... | |
| 1881 - 996 Seiten
...the sun shining on its bright grass, fresh when wo first saw it, with the autumnal dews, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees, which have overgrown the tomb of Cestins, and the soil which is stirring in the sun-warm earth, and to mark the tombs — mostly of... | |
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