 | John Addington Symonds - Drama - 1904 - 580 pages
...hell To light thee thither. With the same ghastly energy his sister utters a like thought of terror : My soul, like to a ship in a black storm, Is driven, I know not whither. Yet the dauntless courage and strong nerves of these ' glorious villains ' sustained them to the last... | |
 | 1906 - 466 pages
...into the background, reemerging in her first splendour only for one moment at the end to cry — " My soul, like to a ship in a black storm, Is driven I know not whither." In like manner, after the terrible scenes describing the torture and death of the Duchess of Malfi,... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - Europe - 1906 - 422 pages
...into the background, reemerging in her first splendour only for one moment at the end to cry — " My soul, like to a ship in a black storm, Is driven I know not whither." In like manner, after the terrible scenes describing the torture and death of the Duchess of Malfi,... | |
 | Grace Eleanor Hadow - English literature - 1907 - 432 pages
...then, as the darkness gathers round her with all its terror and mystery, she breaks into the cry : — My soul, like to a ship in a black storm, Is driven I know not whither, and at her last breath, in a passion of despair which not even Webster's formal couplet can obliterate,... | |
 | Paul Krusius - English language - 1908 - 228 pages
...colossuses in a chamber, who, if they came into the field, would appear pitiful pigmies. 50 a (Vit.) My soul, like to a ship in a black storm, Is driven, I know not wither, — worauf Flam. spottisch: Then cast anchor (Metaph.). 37b Lovers' oaths are like mariners'... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English literature - 1910 - 512 pages
...her face. Mine eyes dazzle: she died young. Of almost equal intensity is the last cry of Vittoria: My soul, like to a ship in a black storm Is driven I know not whither. Returning to the tragedies of Shakespeare, Titus, Romeo and Juliet, the Roman plays, with Timon and... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Literature - 1910 - 330 pages
...— find an interesting parallel in the dying words of Vittoria in Webster's " White Devil," — " My soul, like to a ship in a black storm, Is driven I know not whither." It is probable that the parallelism is accidental, though Shelley at the time (1821) was still revising... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1913 - 596 pages
...light thee thither. With the same ghastly energy his sister utters a like thought of terror : My -.mi!, like to a ship in a black storm, Is driven, I know not whither. Yet the dauntless courage and strong nerves of these ' glorious villains ' sustained them to the last... | |
 | Wilhelm Michael Anton Creizenach - Literary Criticism - 1916 - 488 pages
...the world, and, as a traveller, Goes to discover countries yet unknown.' Vittoria Corombona nays : ' My soul, like to a ship in a black storm, Is driven I know not whither.' Of. also Julia in The Duchess of Malfl. I at Court before the Queen, who was one of the chief patronesses... | |
 | Rupert Brooke - English drama - 1916 - 370 pages
...seems transcended, and the darkness closes in, and boundaries fall away. "My soul," cries Vittoria, "like to a ship in a black storm, Is driven, I know not whither." And Flamineo — "While we look up to Heaven we confound Knowledge with knowledge, O, I am in a mist."... | |
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My soul, like to a ship in a black storm, Is driven I know not whither. 
