 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1853 - 546 páginas
...SENTINEL. Where should tin's music be ? i' the air, or the earth ? THE TEMPEST. • I was all car, And took in strains that might create a soul, Under the ribs of death. COUCs. QUENTIN had hardly reached his little cabin, in order to make some necessary changes in his... | |
 | Redmond Barry (Sir) - 1854 - 214 páginas
...and we may be induced on reflection to admit that the poet uses no hyperbole when he exclaims— " I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death." As sight and hearing are produced by operations of the eye and ear less perceptible to feeling and... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 páginas
...ere she was aware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death : but, 0 ! ere long, Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most houour'd lady, your dear sister.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 642 páginas
...Castle. CHAPTER X. THE SENTINEL. Where should this music be ? i' the air, or the earth ? The Tempest. -I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. Comas. QUENTIN had hardly reached his little cabin, in order 10 make some necessary changes in bis... | |
 | John Milton - 2000 - 412 páginas
...and wish't she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displac't. I was all eare, $60 And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death, but O ere long Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most honour'd Lady, your dear sister.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1906 - 508 páginas
...Castle. CHAPTER X THE SENTINEL Where should this music be ? i' the air or the earth ? IBs TEMPEST -I wan all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. COMUS QUENTIN had hardly reached his little cabin, in order to make some necessary changes in his dress,... | |
 | 1909 - 502 páginas
...ere she was ware, and wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death. But, oh 1 ere long To well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most honoured Lady, your dear sister.... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 páginas
...ware, and wish't she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displac't. I was all eare, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death . . . [548-62] A distant suggestion of the strains of Orpheus in Pluto's realm may evoke the passage... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 páginas
...ware, and wish't she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so ditylact. I was all eare, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death, but O ere long Too weU I did perceive it was tie voice Of my mosl honour 'd Lady, your dear sifter.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1993 - 638 páginas
...Quarterly Review ("Dr. Francia," Essays 4:261). 124.12-13. under the ribs of this outward material death: "I was all ear, / And took in strains that might create a soul / Under the ribs of Death" (Milton, Comus, lines 560-62). See also Letters 12:206. 124.35. James Watt: Watt (1736-1819) began... | |
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O poor hapless nightingale, thought I, How sweet thou sing'st, how near the deadly snare ! Then down the lawns I ran with headlong... 
