 | David Masson - Literature - 1874 - 404 pages
...something in your looks," wrote Vanessa to him, " so awful that it strikes me dumb ; " and again, " Sometimes you strike me with that prodigious awe I tremble with fear ; " and again, " What marks are there of a deity that you are not known by ? " True, these are the... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1882 - 622 pages
...it." Religion cannot comfort her : " were I an enthusiast, you would be the deity I should worship." "Sometimes you strike me with that prodigious awe,...charming compassion shines through your countenance which * In a letter written shortly before nothing less than being carried up to her death, she makes a clear... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 236 pages
...are to be known by — you are (at ?) present everywhere ; your dear image is always before my eyes. Sometimes you strike me with that prodigious awe,...compassion shines through your countenance, which moves my soul. Is it not more reasonable to adore a radiant form one has seen, than one only described... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Authors, Irish - 1882 - 622 pages
...it." Religion cannot comfort her: " were I an enthusiast, you would be the deity I should worship." "Sometimes you strike me with that prodigious awe,...charming compassion shines through your countenance which • In a letter written shortly before her death, she mokes a clear reference to a scene in Gulliver's... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1883 - 924 pages
...too much in earnest to accept his playful advice. She was peremptory and she was abject by turns. " Sometimes you strike me with that prodigious awe,...tremble with fear ; at other times a charming compassion shows through your countenance, which revives my soul." He must marry her, or she would die. And she... | |
 | American periodicals - 1883 - 874 pages
...far too much in earnest to accept his playful advice. She was peremptory and she was abject by turns. "Sometimes you strike me with that prodigious awe,...tremble with fear; at other times a charming compassion shows through your countenance, which revives my soul." He must marry her, or she would die. And she... | |
 | 1883 - 884 pages
...too much in earnest to accept his playful advice. She was peremptory and she was abject by turns. " Sometimes you strike me with that prodigious awe,...tremble with fear ; at other times a charming compassion shows through your countenance, which revives my soul." He must marry her, or she would die. And she... | |
 | England - 1883 - 886 pages
...too much in earnest to accept his playful advice. She was peremptory and she was abject by turns. " Sometimes you strike me with that prodigious awe,...tremble with fear ; at other times a charming compassion shows through your countenance, which revives my soul." He must marry her, or she would die. And she... | |
 | Titus Munson Coan - Biography - 1883 - 324 pages
...too much in earnest to accept his playful advice. She was peremptory and she was abjecj by turns. " Sometimes you strike me with that prodigious awe,...tremble with fear; at other times a charming compassion shows through your countenance, which revives my soul." He must marry her, or she would die. And she... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1884 - 512 pages
...inaccuracies, which are here corrected from Mr. Berwick's MS. your dear image is always before mine eyes. Sometimes you strike me with that prodigious awe,...shines through your countenance, which revives my soul. Is it not more reasonable to adore a radiant form one has seen, than one only described ? TO MISS VANHOMRIGH.... | |
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What marks are there of a deity, but what you are to be known by? — you are present everywhere: your dear image is always before mine eyes. Sometimes you strike me with that prodigious awe, I tremble with fear; at other times a charming compassion shines... 
