I love all waste And solitary places ; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be : And such was this wide ocean, and this shore More barren than its billows. Catholic World - Page 641876Full view - About this book
| Robert Eisner - History - 1991 - 340 pages
...much wilder than Italy's: ... I love all waste And solitary places; where we can taste The pleasures of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be ... Thus Shelley wrote in Julian and Maddalo. And many, I imagine, were the evenings when Byron told... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 pages
...of level sand thereon, Where 'twas our wont to ride while day went down. This ride was my delight. 1 love all waste And solitary places; where we taste...our souls to be: And such was this wide ocean, and this shore More barren than its billows; and yet more Than all, with a remembered friend I love 20... | |
| Philip Koch - Philosophy - 1994 - 400 pages
...'twere in one To live in paradise alone. —Andrew Marvel (1621-1678), "The Garden"" Shelley wrote, I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste...what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be. — "Julian and Maddalo"' Byron's praise is equally famous: There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,... | |
| Roger Highfield, Paul Carter - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 380 pages
...distances he can see'. Einstein seemed in later life to share with Shelley the sad charm of desolate places, 'where we taste/ The pleasure of believing...we see/ Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.' One consequence of Einstein's growing reputation was a fresh opportunity in the spring of 1909. Zurich... | |
| Anne Williams - Art - 1995 - 336 pages
...already and forever exists, than observing anything new. ST Coleridge Collected Notebooks!: 2546 — I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste...what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be. PB Shelley "Julian and Maddalo" How often does nature thus become an involuntary interpreter between... | |
| Sarah Grand - Feminism - 2000 - 436 pages
...eager now. I felt I should shout aloud upon the slightest provocation : " This ride was my delight. I love all waste And solitary places ; where we taste...our souls to be; And such was this wide ocean, and this shore More barren than its billows." .... I was well away upon those lines, riding once more beside... | |
| Herb Goldberg, Robert T. Lewis - Money - 2000 - 272 pages
...the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley captures the essence of the perception of limitlessness when he writes: I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste...what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be. EASY MONEY In times past, alchemists tried to convert cheaper metals such as iron into gold. Some alchemists... | |
| Kate Flint - Art - 2000 - 450 pages
...himself looks towards the thin line which divides land and air, and comments on the scene's effects: I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste...what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be. (lines 14-17) This type of pleasure has a dimension which we may characterise as spiritual. For, in... | |
| David Mazel - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 388 pages
...find a hint of this in Shelley's Julian and Maddalo, when, writing at Venice of the Lido, he says: "I love all waste And solitary places where we taste...we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be." Shelley was impartial in his love of all aspects of wild and unfettered Nature, though for the most... | |
| David M. Carroll - Nature - 2001 - 307 pages
...arrowwood ( Viburnum rccognitum) 4 THE SHRUB SWAMP And solitary places, where we taste The pleasures of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Opening March 28, 1o:3o AM In late March I look for the first open water.... | |
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