| Theodora Elizabeth Lynch - 1855 - 332 pages
...side." " You do not understand me," she replied : " I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which bids me not to stay ; I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away ! " " You will not die, my sweet mother," I said ; " God will not let you die and leave me in such... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...us how to live ; and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. Colin and Lucy. I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must...see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away. THOMAS PARNELL. 1679-1718. The Hermit. Line 5. Remote from man, with God he passed the days, Prayer... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...love-lorn 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 rows, In early youth I die : Am I to blame because his bride Is thrice... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - Faith - 1856 - 500 pages
...conversations, only at the bidding of the central Wisdom. " I hear a voice you cannot hear, " Forbidding me to stay ; " I see a hand you cannot see, " Which beckons me away. CHAPTER TENTH. RELATION OP FAITH TO WANDERING THOUGHTS IN PEAYER. Some religions persons more devoted... | |
| Fairleigh - 1857 - 184 pages
...are over, or Andrew Chilvers is no prophet." CHAPTER III. THE SUMMONS " HOME." — THE BROKEN PLEDGE. I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must...see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away. TlCKELL. THE conversation which Graham had predicted took place that evening. It need not be described... | |
| William Fordyce - Durham (England : County) - 1857 - 848 pages
...before their neighbours have seen their wafs glide softly by. Indeed, some have seen their own — " I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must...see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away." Lucy and Colin. And under the conviction that death is thereby predicted, like many prophecies which... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1857 - 482 pages
...thus to overpower your reason." " It is no vain imagination — I must die," said Lady Delacour. u * I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must...stay ; I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away.1 You perceive that I am in my perfect senses, my dear, or I could not quote poetry. I am not... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1857 - 516 pages
...love ; but the secret of my friend is not mine. — Sir P. SYDSET. CS li. I hear a voice yon can not hear, Which says I must not stay ; I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away. — TICKEL. CS Note V. — a. In that battle he acted cowardly, which ruined his reputation. CS i.... | |
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