 WHEN maidens such as Hester die Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And her together.  The Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts - Sida 1efter Charles Lamb - 1818Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 316 sidor
...vindicate than the language. I remain, My dear Coleridge, Your's, With unabated esteem, C. LAMB. POEMS. POEMS. HESTER. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their...step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, That flush'd her spirit. VOL. I. B I know not by what name beside I shall it call : — if 'twas not... | |
 | 1821 - 420 sidor
...rule, Which doth the human feeling cool, But she was train'd in Nature's school, Nature had blest her. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by...step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, That flush'd her spirit. I know not by what name beside I shall it call • — if 'twas not pride,... | |
 | 1821 - 410 sidor
...may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath slie been dead. Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And oer together. A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common... | |
 | John Iliff Wilson - 1821 - 348 sidor
...sect. She was of a nature so sprightly and strong, that the poet, for some time, says he could not By force be led To think upon the wormy bed And her together. My sprightly neighbour, gone before To that unknown and silent shore, Shall we not meet, as heretofore,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 sidor
...tones of feeling, and which, I think, contain all the characteristic* of which I have been speaking. When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may...step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, That flush'd her spirit. I know not by what name beside I shall it call ; — if 'twas not pride, It... | |
 | 1824 - 340 sidor
...tones of feeling, and which, I think, contain all the characteristics of which I have been speaking. HESTER. When maidens such as Hester die, Their place...step, did indicate, Of pride and joy no common rate, That flush'd her spirit. I know not by what name beside I shall it call ;< — if 't was not pride,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 340 sidor
...been speaking. HESTER. When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Th ough ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month...step, did indicate, Of pride and joy no common rate, That flush'd her spirit. I know not by what name beside I shall it call ;• — if 't was not pride,... | |
 | 1850 - 428 sidor
...may not well supply, Though \e (inning a thousand try. With vain endeavour. A month or more hath *he been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon...And her together* A springy motion in her gait, A ri>ing t>tep, diil indicate Of pride and joy no common rale, Tim! ilu-hV her spirit. I know not by... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 sidor
...Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavor. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by...step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, That fliáh'd her spirit. I know not by what name beside I shall it call : — if 't was not pride,... | |
 | 1836 - 514 sidor
...Hester die. Their place ye may not well supply. Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavor. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by...step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, That flush'd her spirit. I know not by what name beside I shall it call : — if 'twas not pride, It... | |
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