And our singing shall build In the void's loose field A world for the Spirit of Wisdom to wield; We will take our plan From the new world of man, And our work shall be called the Promethean. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - 341 ページ 編集 - 1833全文表示 - この書籍について
| John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1924 - 472 ページ
...Earth, Air, and Light, And the Spirit of Might Which drives round the stars in their fiery flight, And Love, Thought, and Breath, The powers that quell Death, Wherever we soar shall assemble beneath. It is as if he had exalted earth in spite of her physical aspects to the level of spirit and emotions.... | |
| Ramsden Balmforth - 1926 - 258 ページ
...and obscene, and blind, Now 'tis an ocean Of clear emotion, A heaven of serene and mighty motion. " And our singing shall build In the void's loose field...man— And our work shall be called the Promethean." " Ceaseless, and rapid, and fierce, and free. With the Spirits which build a new earth and sea, And... | |
| Robert Metcalf Smith - 1928 - 538 ページ
...Earth, Air, and Light, And the Spirit of Might, Which drives round the stars in their fiery flight; And Love, Thought, and Breath, The powers that quell...our work shall be called the Promethean. CHORUS OF HOURS Break the dance, and scatter the song; Let some depart, and some remain. SEMICHORUS I We, beyond... | |
| Jerrold E. Hogle - 1989 - 433 ページ
...spheres, outer spaces beyond the present limits of scientific knowledge, so that thought's "singing [can] build, / In the Void's loose field, / A world for the Spirit of Wisdom to wield" (IV. 153-155). The extension starts when the removal of masks in act 3, which throws off the dominion... | |
| L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 ページ
...this tormenting solitude will be replaced by reunion with Asia and the vision of a world community: And our singing shall build In the Void's loose field...of man And our work shall be called the Promethean. (IV, 153-58) It is a bad analytic move, therefore, to associate Romanticism simply with celebrating... | |
| Steven Goldsmith - 1993 - 346 ページ
...resulting void with the new heaven and earth of its own apocalyptic imagining, of its own autogenic voice: And our singing shall build, In the Void's loose field,...of man And our work shall be called the Promethean We whirl, singing loud, round the gathering sphere Till the trees and the beasts, and the clouds appear... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1994 - 752 ページ
...Spirit of Might, Which drives round the stars in their fiery flight; And Love, Thought, and Breath, 150 The powers that quell Death, Wherever we soar shall...our work shall be called the Promethean. Chorus of Hours Break the dance, and scatter the song; Let some depart, and some remain. ieo Semichorus I We,... | |
| Michael Simpson - 1998 - 500 ページ
...perhaps exemplified in the account given by the chorus in Prometheus Unbound of its own function: . . . our singing shall build, In the Void's loose field,...man, And our work shall be called the Promethean. (IV.153-58) Not only does this chorus claim to command a unanimity, which enables it to affect history,... | |
| Melvin Jonah Lasky - 752 ページ
...intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends."28 We will take our plan From the new world of man, And our work shail be called the Promethean. [4.156-58] As for his own personal plan, it was to make an alliance... | |
| Rob Pope - 2005 - 328 ページ
...love, not fear' (IV. 171). The overall tenor of Shelley's treatment is therefore increasingly positive: 'We will take our plan / From the new world of man, / And our work shall be called the Promethean' (IV. 156-8). Even so, the conclusion leaves no doubt that the struggle with oppression is ongoing,... | |
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