 Tis she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd ' Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it in heaven a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a Lover's or a Roman's part ? Is...  The Talisman for ... - Seite 89herausgegeben von - 1827Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 Seiten
...a stone Tell where I lie. Ode on Solitude. 1 Cf. Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Booh iv. C. i. St. 42. What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps and points to yonder glade?1 To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line I. By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 Seiten
...the first lines of this elegy, in his poem to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady : " What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade, Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade ? " WHAL. Pope's imitation, however, falls far short of the picturesque and awful solemnity of the... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 Seiten
...the first lines of this elegy, in his poem to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady : " What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade, Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade ? " WHAL. Pope's imitation, however, falls far short of the picturesque and awful solemnity of the... | |
 | Robert Greene - 1876 - 576 Seiten
...at Engleneld in Berkshire, where an inscription by Dryden appears upon his monument. t What gentle ghost along the moonlight shade, Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade. POPE—On an Unfortunate Lady. t Rock Savage was the name of the seat in Cheshire of the Marchioness... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 Seiten
...your wings ! I mount !' I fly ! 0 grave ! where is thy victory ? 0 death ! where is thy sting ? ibid. What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade ? * To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 1 Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 Seiten
...: Receive, and wrap me in eternal rest ! Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. What beck'ning t ; and in a subsequent letter to his friend West he again adverts to this m ? Tis she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gored ? Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh, ever... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1902 - 1118 Seiten
...woman 's deaf, and does not hear. 44*. Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady VVTHAT beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade *^ Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? Tis she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gored, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? O, ever beauteous,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 Seiten
...: Receive, and wrap me in eternal rest ! Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. What beck'ning so much presence of mind, as well as breath left, that, seeing myself nearer 'Tis she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gored ? \Vhy dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh, ever... | |
 | Alice Meynell - 1904 - 388 Seiten
...The hand that made us is divine.' ALEXANDER POPE 1688-1744 ELEGY To the Memory of an unfortunate Lady WHAT beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade ? 'Tis she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gored ? Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? O ever... | |
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