This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts,... A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen - Page 175by George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853Full view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...further colloquy — and so — farewell. [Exit MANFRED. ABBOT. This should hare been a noble creature : ron Byron muid and dust — and passions and pure thoughts, Mu'd and contending without end or order, All dormant... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1846 - 818 pages
...that should have been, as the abbot of St. Maurice says of Manfred, " a noble creature, he that had all the energy which would have made a goodly frame of glorious elements, might, from their not being wisely mingled or properly directed, become an awful chaos — light and... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...MANFRED. Abbot. This should have been a noble creature : Hath all the energy which would have made [(3)he A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled ; as il is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness — \ndmind and dust — and passions and pure thoughts... | |
| 1847 - 592 pages
...from the trammels of civilized life, or could he bend his will to the circumstances of the times ; for he " Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly...is It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thought, Mixed and contending, without end or order, All dormant... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...MANFBED. Abb. This should have been a noble creature ' : he Hath all the energy which would have mode A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been...It is an awful chaos — light and darkness — And mind and dust — and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 356 pages
...of his soul. He takes the world, and all that it inherit, for his arena and his spectators; and he A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been...It is an awful chaos — light and darkness — And mind and dust — and passions and pure thoughts Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...regret of the good abbot over the sins of Manfred : — " This should have been n noble creature : he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly...It is an awful chaos — light and darkness — And mind and dust — and passions and pure thoughts, Mixed, and contending, without end or order, All... | |
| Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 pages
...say more in a minute, than he will stand to in a month. 36. This should have been a noble creature ; he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly...is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness And mind and dust — and passions and pure thoughts Mixed, and contending without end or order, All dormant... | |
| 1849 - 556 pages
...regret of the good abbot over the sins of Manfred : — ' This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly...is an awful chaos : — light and darkness, — And mind and dust, — and passions and pure thoughts, Mixed, and contending without end or order, All... | |
| Truth-seeker and present age - 1849 - 540 pages
...Abbot over the sins of Manfred : ' This should have been a noble creature : he Hath all the energy that would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements,...It is an awful chaos — light and darkness — And mind and dust — and passions and pure thoughts, Mixt and contending, without end or order, All dormant... | |
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