...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 and outcries...vow a present end to all their sorrows ; Yet live to vow new pleasures, and out-live them. They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings : Let...

...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 and outcries...vow a present end to all their sorrows ; Yet live to vow new pleasures, and out-live them. They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings : Let...

...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,...which cut the heartstrings; Let me die smiling. Near. 'Trs-zrteuth_tocLaI»iBeas. Cal. One kiss on these cold lips, my last ! — [Kisses Ithocles^ — crack,...

...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 —...

...deceived your eyes with antic gestures, Of death 1 and death ! and death ! still I danced forward ; Be such mere women, who with shrieks and outcries...Let me die smiling. Near. 'Tis a truth too ominous. Cal. One kiss on these cold lips, my last! [Kisses ITHOCLES. —Crack, crack !— Argos now's Sparta's...

...triple death blow to interrupt her courtly dancing was all an 'antic gesture', pointing the moral that 'They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings; / Let me die smiling.' To the strain of a pre-arranged dirge, she dies simply by transfiguring her deathwish into a royal...

...Additional Notes, p. 349. 64 See Textual Notes, p. 341. But it struck home, and here, and in an instant. Be such mere women, who with shrieks and outcries...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. 75 Let...

...death, and death. Still I danc'd forward; But it struck home, and here, and in an instant. . . . These are the silent griefs which cut the heartstrings; Let me die smiling. (5.3.67-71; 75-76)* This acknowledgment of grief balances her earlier reaction to the news, a reaction...

...death, and death, and death; still I danced forward. But it struck home, and here, and in an instant. They are the silent griefs which cut the heartstrings. Let me die smiling. One kiss on these cold lips - my last; crack, crack, Argos now 's Sparta's king. They looked terror...

...women' (5.3.72), Calantha resolves to die a death which will testify to her truth of heart as a Spartan: 'They are the silent griefs which cut the heartstrings. / Let me die smiling' (5.3.75-6). Calantha's commanding of her heart to crack is a supreme exertion of will, differing from...