 twas my father's last bequest. \Places a ring on the finger of ITHOCLES. Thus I new-many him whose wife I am ; Death shall not separate us. O, my lords, I but deceived your eyes with antic gesture, When one news straight came huddling on another Of death...  John Ford - Page xviby John Ford - 1888 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - Authors, English - 1904 - 686 pages
...wife I am ; Death shall not separate us. O my lords, I but deceiv'd your eyes with antick gesture, When one news straight came huddling on another, Of death, and death, and death, still I danc'd forward But it struck home, and here, and in an instant. Be such mere women, who with shrieks... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 pages
...outcries Can vow a present end to all their sorrows, Yet live to vow new pleasures, and outlive them. They are the silent griefs which cut the heartstrings : Let me die smiling. Near. 'Tis a truth too ominous. Col. One kiss on these cold lips — my last : crack, crack : Argos,... | |
 | John Ford - 1906 - 244 pages
...wife I am ; Death shall not separate us. Oh, my lords, I but deceived your eyes with antick gesture, When one news straight came huddling on another, Of...death ! and death ! and death ! still I danced forward : 8 I But it struck home, and here, and 1n an instant. Be such mere women, who, with shrieks and outcries,... | |
 | Francis Aidan Gasquet - Black Death - 1908 - 308 pages
...months of the following year the words of the old play must have had only too true an application: One news straight came huddling on another Of death, and death, and death." In dealing with a case of this kind a first object is to control as far as possible, by means of definite... | |
 | Joseph O'Connor - 1911 - 360 pages
...the dying speech of the Spartan queen in an old English play, and he murmured with a bitter laugh, "They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings ; Let me die smiling." "Well," he added, "there is nothing for me to do but 'dance forward' like Calantha in the tragedy —... | |
 | John Masefield - Africa - 1911 - 316 pages
...ardour the memory of many other rides to her. " LOSS OF THE ' LORD ULLIN ' "CORONER'S VERDICT." §7 One news straight came huddling on another Of death, and death, and death. The 'Broken Heart. THE sun was golden over all the marvel of Ireland. The sea came in sight from time... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...outcries Can vow a present end to all their sorrows, Yet live to court new pleasures, and outlive them : They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings ; Let me die smiling. Near. 'Tis a truth too ominous. Cal. One kiss on these cold lips, my last! [Kisses ITHOCLES. —Crack,... | |
 | Florence Melian Stawell, Francis Sydney Marvin - Europe - 1923 - 408 pages
...and Iphigenia : " O, my lords, I but deceived your eyes with antic gesture, When straight one news came huddling on another Of death, and death, and death — still I danced forward. They are the silent griefs that crack the heartstrings ; Let me die smiling." The likeness, through... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1925 - 290 pages
...yields the victory to her, and before long her triumph is complete. 855 f. Ford, The Broken Heart v. 3 When one news straight came huddling on another Of death ! and death ! and death ! In Kcucoi! KO.KIOV SXXo irf)|Mi she means him to understand disasters happening to him, his wounds... | |
 | William Thomson Hastings - American essays - 1928 - 454 pages
...of astonishing beauty the play shot at us! O, my lords, I but deceived your eyes with antic gesture, When one news straight came huddling on another Of...death! and death! and death! still I danced forward. or You have oft for these two lips Neglected cassia or the natural sweets Of the spring-violet: they... | |
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