 | 1835 - 842 psl.
...desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the beauty of fair Greece, And the grandeur of old Rome. Lo ! in that little window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand ! The folded scroll within thy hand... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1894 - 92 psl.
...may of course pass into the parallelism of a clause, and vice versa. Thus Poe originally wrote : " To the beauty of fair Greece And the grandeur of old Rome ; " but finally : " To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome." t Cf. Platen's Chor... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1902 - 286 psl.
...itself became " a joy forever." Poe, too, altered two lines of his with like magical effect, when for " To the beauty of fair Greece, And the grandeur of old Rome," he wrote : " To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome." The phrase " well of pure... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1902 - 290 psl.
...itself became " a joy forever." Poe, too, altered two lines of his with like magical effect, when for " To the beauty of fair Greece, And the grandeur of old Rome," he wrote : " To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome." The phrase " well of pure... | |
 | 1904 - 778 psl.
...two superb lines, where all are beautiful. In the early form of the verses, the two lines ran thus : "To the beauty of fair Greece And the grandeur of old Rome." This mediocre couplet was afterward transfigured into "To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1904 - 266 psl.
...superb lines, where all are beautiful. In the early form of the verses, the two lines ran thus : " To the beauty of fair Greece And the grandeur of old Rome." This mediocre ' couplet was afterward transfigured into " To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 324 psl.
...itself became "a joy forever." Poe, too, altered two lines of his with like magical effect, when for "To the beauty of fair Greece, And the grandeur of old Rome," 13 he wrote : "To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome." The phrase "well of pure... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 332 psl.
...itself became "a joy forever." Poe, too, altered two lines of his with like magical effect, when for "To the beauty of fair Greece, And the grandeur of old Rome," 13 he wrote: "To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome." The phrase " well of pure... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1907 - 246 psl.
...and most frequently quoted l1nes. Explain the fitness of the epithets. Originally the lines read : To the beauty of fair Greece And the grandeur of old Rome. Is the change an improvement ? Explain. 14. Psyche: the Greek word for "soul," and also the name of... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 psl.
...is interesting to know, by the way, that these famous fines, in the edition of 1831, ran thus: — "To the beauty of fair Greece And the grandeur of old Rome." What a transmutation 1 allegory. What poet had before essayed that with perfect success ? I will not... | |
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To the beauty of fair Greece, And the grandeur of old Rome," 13 he wrote : "To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. 
