...it came! Ottima. Buried in woods we lay, you recollect; Swift ran the searching tempest overhead ; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burnt thro'...: then broke The thunder like a whole sea overhead — Sebald. Yes ! How did we ever rise? Was it that we slept? Why did it end? Ottima. I felt you, Fresh...

...recollect; Swift ran the searching tempest overhead; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burnt through the pine-tree roof — here burnt and there, As if...weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thee and me!" On another afternoon the sun went down behind such spectacular clouds that we wondered if Browning,...

...tempest overhead ; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burned thro' the pine-tree roof, here burned and there, As if God's messenger thro' the close wood...then broke The thunder like a whole sea overhead— Sebald. Yes ! I kiss you now, dear Ottima, now and now ! This way ? Will you forgive me—be once more...

...tempest overhead ; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burned thro' the pine-tree roof, here burned and there, As if God's messenger thro' the close wood...: then broke The thunder like a whole sea overhead — Sebald. Yes! Ottima. — While I stretched myself upon you, hands To hands, my mouth to your hot...

...tempest overhead; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burned thro" the pine-tree roof, here burned and there, As if God's messenger thro' the close wood...: then broke The thunder like a whole sea overhead " Surely there is nothing in all our literature more poignantly dramatic than this first part of "...

...bright white shaft Burnt through the pine-tree roof. Here burnt and there As if God's messenger through the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon...then broke The thunder like a whole sea overhead.' ' Is not that very striking ? B. It is, indeed, a very remarkable passage. How admirably he uses the...

...the wind, and the bolts of the lightning fall "as if God's messenger, through the close wood-screen, plunged and replunged his weapon, at a venture, feeling for guilty thee and me; then breaks the thunder like a whole sea overhead." The searching God Las found us. Trembling in our hidingplace,...

...the wind, and the bolts of the lightning fall "as if God's messenger, through the close wood-screen, plunged and replunged his weapon, at a venture, feeling for guilty thee and me ; then breaks the thunder like a whole sea overhead." The searching God has found us. Trembling in our hidingplace,...

...bright white shaft Burnt through the pine-tree roof, here hurnt and there, As if God's messenger through the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty me and thee : then broke The thunder like a whole sea overhead. And Browning would have affirmed that...

...overhead; And ever and anon some bright white shaft Burned thro' the pine-tree roof — here burned and there As if God's messenger thro' the close wood...weapon at a venture. Feeling for guilty thee and me!" There is a conversation between two villains, in Richard III that may also serve as an illustration....