Œuvres complètes de Chateaubriand, Issue 5558, Volume 11Garnier, 1861 |
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... things , Abominable , inutterable , and worse Than fables yet have feign'd or fear conceived , Gorgons , and hydras , and chimæras dire . ⚫ Elles traversent maintes vallées sombres et désertes , maintes régions doulou- reuses , par ...
... things , Abominable , inutterable , and worse Than fables yet have feign'd or fear conceived , Gorgons , and hydras , and chimæras dire . ⚫ Elles traversent maintes vallées sombres et désertes , maintes régions doulou- reuses , par ...
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... thing of itself , to all judicious ears , trivial and of no true musical delight , which consists only in apt numbers , fit quantity of syllables , and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another , not in the jingling ...
... thing of itself , to all judicious ears , trivial and of no true musical delight , which consists only in apt numbers , fit quantity of syllables , and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another , not in the jingling ...
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... things . presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into hell , described here , not in the centre ( for heaven and earth may be supposed as yet not made , certainly not yet accursed ) , but in a place of utter darkness , fitliest ...
... things . presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into hell , described here , not in the centre ( for heaven and earth may be supposed as yet not made , certainly not yet accursed ) , but in a place of utter darkness , fitliest ...
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... Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . And chiefly thou , O Spirit , that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure , Instruct me , for thou know'st : Thou from the first Wast present , and with mighty wings ...
... Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . And chiefly thou , O Spirit , that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure , Instruct me , for thou know'st : Thou from the first Wast present , and with mighty wings ...
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... things His holy rites and solemn feats profaned , And with their darkness durst affront his light . First Moloch , horrid king , besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice , and parents ' tears ; Though for the noise of drums and timbrels ...
... things His holy rites and solemn feats profaned , And with their darkness durst affront his light . First Moloch , horrid king , besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice , and parents ' tears ; Though for the noise of drums and timbrels ...
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Page 152 - What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself; With thee it came and goes : but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces ; he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine, to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be call'd Mother of human race.
Page 60 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 82 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 134 - Ah, wherefore ? he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none ; nor was his service hard. What could be less than to afford him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks, How due...
Page 352 - Matter of scorn, not to be given the Foe. However, I with thee have fix'd my lot, Certain to undergo like doom : If death Consort with thee, death is to me as life ; So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of Nature draw me to my own ; My own in thee, for what thou art is mine ; Our state cannot be sever'd ; we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
Page 354 - With liberal hand: he scrupled not to eat, Against his better knowledge : not deceived, But fondly overcome with female charm. Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs ; and Nature gave a second groan ; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Page 198 - Myself and all the angelic host, that stand In sight of God, enthroned, our happy state Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; On other surety none; freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall: And some are fallen, to disobedience fallen, And so from Heaven to deepest Hell; O fall, From what high state of bliss, into what woe...
Page 156 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 286 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather ; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses : from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Page 158 - Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heaven on all his ways; While other animals unactive range, And of their doings God takes no account. To-morrow, ere fresh morning streak the east With first approach of light, we must be risen, And at our pleasant labour to reform Yon...