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" 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 114
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1872
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Memories of Rome

Denis O'Donovan - Rome (Italy) - 1859 - 350 pages
...grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? It is not lessen'd ; but thy mind, Expanded by the glories of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find...His holy of holies, nor be blasted by His brow.'* And Forsyth, Hilliard, Eustace, Gray, ilibClxi. de Stael, and Dr. Meyer are no less enthnsascc irb...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 364 pages
...worship undefiled. CLIII. 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 tit alxxle wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality ; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy,...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...inquiring further of CLV. Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thec not ; 3 And why ? it is not lessen'd ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only flnd A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of Immortality ; and thou Shalt one day, if found...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...iv. 155), in reference to the effect produced on the mind by the view of St. Peter's at Rome : — " Thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal." (2) Thyself earth's rosy star — Mont Blanc is here spoken of as a star, because of the height of...
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Rome; Its Ruler and Its Institutions

John Francis Maguire - Papal States - 1860 - 502 pages
...grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? It is not lessened ; but thy mind, Expanded by the glories of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find...now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by His brow." An extract from a diary which I kept while in Kome, and in which I hurriedly jotted down the impressions...
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Scenes and Impressions Abroad

Joel Edson Rockwell - Europe - 1860 - 356 pages
...ark of worship undefined. Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? It is not lessened, but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot,...can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined The hopes of immortality ; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined, See thy God face to...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with illustr. by K. Halswelle

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 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,...now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by His brow. CLVL Thou movest — but increasing with the advance, Like climbing some great Alp, which still doth...
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...ark of worship undefined. Enter : its grandeur o'erwhelms thee not ; And why ? It is not lessen'd ; but thy mind Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has...now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by his brow. Thou movest, but increasing with the advance, Like climbing some great Alp, which still doth rise....
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The lady's reader: with rules for a good style of reading aloud

George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 382 pages
...ark of worship undefiled. 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. Thou mo vest — but increasing with the advance, Like climbing some great Alp, which still doth rise,...
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Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with biogr. notices ...

English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...why ? it is not lessened, but thy mind. Expanded by the ;Senms of the 3pot Has grown coloa&al . 4 . Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode...now, His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by His brow. Thou movest — but increasing with the advance, Like climbing some great Alp, which still doth rise...
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