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...faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a Saint : The spring gush'd through grim mouths, of granite made, And sparkled into basins,...bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles. LXV. The mansion's. self was vast and venerable, With more of the monastic than has been Elsewhere... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1823 - 424 pages
...like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a Saint! ,,, : The spring gush'd through grim mouths, of granite made, And sparkled into basins,...spent , , Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, .. '_,_, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troub1es;vj, _'"' The mansion's self was vast and venerable^... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 916 pages
...faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a saint : The spring gush'd through grim mouths, of granite made, And sparkled into basins,...bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles. LXV. LXVJ. The mansion's self was vast and venerable, With more of the monastic than has heen Elsewhere... | |
| George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...a saint : The spring gushed through grim mouths, of granite made, And sparkled into basins, wla-re it spent Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles. Elsewhere preserved : the cloisters still were stabl , The cells too and refectory, I ween : An exquisite... | |
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...faces, like to men in masquerade, And here, perhaps, a monster, there a saint: The spring gush'd through grim mouths, of granite made, And sparkled into basins,...Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles. THE CASTILIAN NUPTIALS. And days fle't , * A cloud came o'er my destiny. The dream of passion soon was... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...faces, like to men in masquerade. And here perhaps a monster, there a saint: The spring gush'd through grim mouths, of granite made, And sparkled into basins,...torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, nnd his vainer troubles. The mansion's self was vast and venerable, U ff li more of the monastic than... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 542 pages
...faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a saint : The spring gush'd through grim mouths, of granite made, And sparkled into basins,...bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles. LXVI. The mansion's self was vast and venerable, With more of the monastic than has been Elsewhere... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1832 - 456 pages
...And here perhaps a monster, there a Saint : [made, The spring gnsh'd throngh grim months, of granite And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent in a thonsand bnbbles. Like man's vain glory, and his vainer tronbles. LXvl. The mansion's self was vast... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1833 - 332 pages
...[made, Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles. LXVI. The mansion's self was vast and venerable, With more...were stable, The cells, too, and refectory, I ween : where men went, and still go, with a face of foolish wonderment, predisposed to swallow the grossest... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 334 pages
...: The spring gush'd through grim mouths of granite And sparkled into basins, where it spent [made, Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles. LXVI. The mansion's self was vast and venerable, With more of the monastic than has been Elsewhere... | |
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