 Enter: its grandeur overwhelms thee not; And why? it is not lessen'd; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality ; and thou Shalt one day, if found...  Childe Harold's pilgrimage: Italy - Page 112by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 488 pages
...undefiled. CLV. Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why? it is not lessen'd; but thy mind, 20 Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal,...and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined, 25 See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by His brow. CLVI.... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 508 pages
...undefiled. CLV. Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why? it is not lessen'd; but thy mind, 20 Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal,...immortality ; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so denned, 25 See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by His brow.... | |
 | Mena C. Pfirshing - Italy - 1895 - 186 pages
...Piazzi di Spagna. CHAPTER XV. Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? it is not lessen'd ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot,...now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by his brow. — BYRON. To SPEND a Sunday in Rome, with its hundreds of churches, and with services at all hours,... | |
 | Isaac Haight Beardsley - Clergy - 1898 - 620 pages
...threshold. Lord Byron wrote: "Enter; its grandeur overwhelms dice not; And why? it is not lessened; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot,...now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by his brow." What magnificence! The gilding of the high altar under the dome cost $100,000. On a platform breast... | |
 | Henry Heathcote Statham - Architecture - 1898 - 166 pages
...effect of St. Peter's : — " Enter ! Its grandeur overpowers thee not, And why? It is not lessen'd, but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal" — is only an inverted form of the often-repeated jargon about St. Peter's looking small " because... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 592 pages
...Ark of worship undefiled. Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? it is not lessened — but thy mind, Expanded by the Genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit 2 abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of Immortality — and thou i. round roofs swell.— [MS.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 594 pages
...worship undefiled. CLV. Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? it is not lessened — but thy mind, Expanded by the Genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit 2 abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of Immortality — and thou i. — round roofs swell. —... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1899 - 332 pages
...ark of worship undefiled. Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why 1 it is not lessened ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find 1390 CLV CLVI Thou movest, but increasing with the advance, Like climbing some great Alp, which still... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 492 pages
...of worship undefiled. CLV. Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? it is not lessen'd ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot,...immortality ; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so denned, See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by His brow.... | |
 | Michigan State Bar Association - 1903 - 162 pages
...it made him feel to see it. "Enter; Its srandeur overwhelms thee not. And why? It is not lessened; but thy mind Expanded by the genius of the spot Has grown colossal and car, only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of Immortality; and thou Shalt one day.... | |
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