...Lift not the painted veil which those who live Call life : though unreal shapes be pictured there, behind lurk Fear And Hope, twin destinies ; who ever...Their shadows, o'er the chasm, sightless and drear.' Shelley ; ' Sonnet to a Reviewer." unless either a poet's imagination be so hot and determined as to...

...unreal shapes be pictured there, And it but mimic all we would believe With colors idly spread, — behind, lurk Fear And Hope, twin Destinies, who ever weave Their shadows o'er the chasm sightless aud drear. I knew one who had lifted it — he sought, For his lost heart was tender, thiugs to love,...

...shapes be pictured there, And it but mimic all we would believe With colors idly spread,—behind, lurk Fear And Hope, twin Destinies, who ever weave Their shadows o'er the chasm sightless and drear. I knew one who had lifted it—he sought, For his lost heart was tender, things to love Most poets,...

...unreal shapes be pictured there, And it but mimic all we would believe With colours idly spread,-behind, lurk Fear And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever weave...Their shadows, o'er the chasm, sightless and drear. I knew one who had lifted it - he sought, For his lost heart was tender, things to love, But found...

...with moments of despair. His "Lift Not the Painted Veil" of 1818 acknowledges our "twin Destinies": Lift not the painted veil which those who live Call Life . . . behind, lurk Fear And Hope. For others too the dogma of progress was too good to be true. James Thomson's "The City of Dreadful...

...question heaven and hell and heart in vain!" (Why Did I Laugh?, 7-8); and we have Shelley warning, "Lift not the painted veil which those who live /...Their shadows o'er the chasm, sightless and drear" (Sonnet: Lift Not the Painted Veil, 1-6). Perhaps these latter Romantic glimpses of confusion in the...

...espera demasiado y se inventa miles de quimeras que no siempre corresponden a la verdad tras el velo: behind lurk Fear And Hope, twin Destinies, who ever...Their shadows o'er the chasm, sightless and drear. El chasm (boca o bostezo de la caverna; espacio entre el cielo y la tierra, entre lo mortal y lo divino)...

...unreal shapes be pictured there, And it but mimic all we would believe With colours idly spread— behind, lurk Fear And Hope, twin Destinies; who ever...weave Their shadows, o'er the chasm, sightless and dread. I knew one who had lifted it — he sought, For his lost heart was tender, things to love, But...

...awe, worship, degree" (111.^.195-96). Behind the "painted veil," according to the sonnet's speaker, lurk Fear And Hope, twin Destinies, who ever weave...Their shadows o'er the chasm, sightless and drear. (11. 4-6) These twins motivate, inform, and ultimately reify and textualize human discourse — by...

..."loathsome mask" (3.4.190, 193). But a sonnet tells us, just the opposite, "Lift not the painted veil," for "behind, lurk Fear / And Hope, twin Destinies, who...Their shadows o'er the chasm, sightless and drear" (1, 3-5, R, 327-28). Elsewhere too unveiling can be dangerous. In her kindness the Witch of Atlas weaves...