 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 414 pages
...love-lorn maiden knew The solemn-boding sound, And thus in dying words bespoke, The maidens weeping round. I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay ; I see a hand you cannot see, * Which,beckons me away. By a false heart, and broken vows, In early youth I die : Was I to blame,... | |
 | Anna Seward - Authors, English - 1811 - 412 pages
...these words shocked her with their resemblance to the passage of solemn beauty inTickell's ballad:— " I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must...see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away." Poor Miss Hinckley used to be fond of that little poem. Those lines probably occurred to her with a... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1811 - 402 pages
...thus to overpower your reason," " It is no vain imagination—I must die," said lady Delacour. • I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must...see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away.' " You perceive that I am in my perfect senses, my dear! or I could not quote poetry.—I am not insane—I... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 456 pages
...And thus, in dying words, bespoke The virgins weeping round. " I hear a voice you cannot hear, 1& " Which says, I must not stay : " I see a hand you cannot see, " Which beckons me away. " By a false heart, and broken vows, " In early youth I die. SO " Am I to blame, because his bride... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - Translating and interpreting - 1813 - 466 pages
...Que t'ingrat me rencontre alors, Lui, dans son bel habit de noce, Et Lucy sous le drap des morts. / hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not...see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away. By a false heart, and broken vaws, In early youth I die ; Am I to btame, because his bride Is thrice... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...maiden knew The solemn boding sound : And thus, in dying words, bespoke The virgins weeping round : ." I hear a voice you cannot hear, " Which says I must...see a hand you cannot see, " Which beckons me away. " By a false heart, and broken vows', " In early youth I die : •' Am I to blame, because his bride... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1815 - 526 pages
...Professor Stewart. § V. An excellent essay of Mr. Barnes's on Imagination . Manchester Society, vol. i. " I hear a voice you cannot hear, " Which says I must...see a hand you cannot see, " Which beckons me away." Imagination bears the voice, as well as sees the hand; by an easy licence of metaphor, what was originally... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1815 - 524 pages
...Professor Stewart. § V. An excellent essay of Mr. Barnes's on Imagination ; Manchester Society, vol. i. " I hear a voice you cannot hear, " Which says I must...stay : " I see a hand you cannot see, " Which beckons roe away." Imagination hears the voice, as well as sees the hand ; by an easy licence of metaphor,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...love-lorn maiden kn*W The solemn boding sound, And thus in dying words bespoke The virgins weeping round: 1 hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says, I must not...see a hand you cannot see, , Which beckons me away. By a false heart, and broken vows, In early youth I die: Am I to blame because his bride J» thrice... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 342 pages
...if you are not weary of these details, you will find the result in the next Chapter. CHAPTER IV. " I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says, I must...see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away." TICKELL. I HAVE already told you, Tresham, if you deign to bear it in remembrance, that my evening... | |
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I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away. 
