 | Marmaduke Edmonstone Browne - 1878 - 360 sidor
...within My reach whatever floating thing the stream Had caught. The voice was ceas'd ; the person lost ; But looking sad and earnest on the waters, By the...curious there an infant lay. LADY R.— " Was he alive ? PKIS. — " He was. LADY R. — " Inhuman that thou art ! How could'st thou kill what waves and tempest... | |
 | 1886 - 344 sidor
...My reach whatever floating thing the stream Had caught. The voice wae ceas'd; the person lost: Bat looking sad and earnest on the waters, By the moon's light, I saw, whirl'd round ana round, A basket; soon I drew to the bank, And nestl'd curious there an infant lay. Lady /.'. Was... | |
 | James Boaden - 1893 - 506 sidor
...relief: persisting in her notion of his fate, she now, incensed as well as afflicted, exclaims — ' Inhuman that thou art ! How could'st thou kill what waves and tempests spar'd ? ' I am certain that Mrs. Siddons thus reasoned the passage, and that it was the conviction... | |
 | James Boaden - 1893 - 554 sidor
...relief: persisting in her notion of his fate, she now, incensed as well as afflicted, exclaims— ' Inhuman that thou art ! How could'st thou kill what waves and tempests spar'd ?' I am certain that Mrs. Siddons thus reasoned the passage, and that it was the conviction... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 582 sidor
...ceased ; the person lost: But looking sad and earnest on the waters, By the moon's light I saw, whirled round and round, A basket; soon I drew it to the bank, And nestled curious there an infant lay. Lady R.—Was he alive ? Pris.—He was. Lady R.—Inhuman that thou art ! How couldst thou kill what waves... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 sidor
...within My reacli whatever floating thing the stream Had caught. The voice was ceased ; the person lost : ch was a proper regard to the unhappy men, who were become their victi whirled round and round, A basket ; soon I drew it to the bank, And nestled curious there an infant... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1902 - 474 sidor
...whatever floating thing the stream Had caught. The voice was ceased ; the person lost : But, lookiug sad and earnest on the waters, By the moon's light I saw, whirled round and round, A basket ; soon I drew it to the bank, And nestled curious there an infant... | |
 | Florence Mary Wilson Parsons - 1909 - 372 sidor
...does not seriously believe Old Norval's assurance — " He was," since she instantly hurls back — " Inhuman that thou art ! How could'st thou kill what waves and tempests spared?" so proving that the inquiry could not have been, as Mrs. Crawford interpreted it, the sudden, rushing... | |
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At the dead hour of night was heard the cry Of one in jeopardy. I rose, and ran To where the circling eddy of a pool, Beneath the ford, us'd oft to bring within My reach whatever floating thing the stream Had caught. 
