...THE WHEELS, VOL. I. BY THE AUTHOR OF "OLIVE VARCOE," "PATIENCE CAERHTDON," "SIMPLE AS A DOVE," ETC. "The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can feel of pain." BYBOlf. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. L LONDON: TINSLEY BROTHERS 18, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND. 1870. [All...

...Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despies ; What was thy pity's recompense Î A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture,...The agony they do not show The suffocating sense of woo, The sufferings of mortality, Which speaks but in its loneliness, And then is jealous lest the...

...worthy of his theme. This piece should bo declaimed with strength, of voice and dignity of manner.] Were not as things that gods despise , What was thy pity's recompense? A silent guttering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture, and the chain. All that the proud can feel of pain,...

...there was Obscurity and Fame, — The Glory and the Nothing of a Name.77 Dioihti, ISlC. Pf:Oil ETHEL'S. THAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...loneliness, And then is jealous lest the sky Should have n listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. Titan ! to thee the strife was given Between...

...Obscurity and Fame, — The Glory and the Nothing of a Name." Diodati, 1816. PkOJlETHEL'3. t. TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, What was thy pity's recompense ? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, the vulture, and the chain,...

...his domestic 'experience. Page jo, note I. Compare Byron's Prometheus. Titan, to whose immortal eye The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise, etc. Page ji, note I. The power of true vision to unsettle and move and elevate everything, indeed...

...Whieh of the heirs of immortality ls proud, and makes the breath of glory reel . PROMETHEUS. TITAN ! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...as things that gods despise ; What was thy pity's reeompense I A silent suffering, and intense ; The rook, the vulture, and the ehain, All that the proud...

...In which there was Obscurity and Fame — The Glory and the Nothing of a Name. PROMETHEUS. TITAN ! a crime or care, Save transient ills that all must bear, Has been thy lot from youth to a tilings that gods despise, What was thy pity's recompense? A silent suffering, and intense ; The rock,...

...forth to discover The beautiful Fountain of Youth. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL). PROMETHEUS. TITAX! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality,...in its loneliness, And then is jealous lest the sky Miould have a listener, nor will sigh Until its voice is echoless. Titan ! to thee the strife was given...

...could feel the power of "Silent suffering, and intense ; The rock, tbe vulture, and the chain, Alt that the proud can feel of pain, The agony they do not show, The suflncatini; sense of woe, Which speaks hut in its loneliness, And then is jealous, lest the sky Should...