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" Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder... "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 450
1821
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The Channel islands magazine

1853 - 632 pages
...was he actually bewitched by a young gentleman coeval with King Charles the Witty ? " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ?" Unable to solve the problem, the schoolmaster went to bed. The following day he had promised himself...
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Old England and New England: In a Series of Views Taken on the Spot, Volume 1

Alfred Bunn - Social Science - 1853 - 348 pages
...newly faced each division, and they formed two very respectable sides of the street! " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud Without our special wonder ?" Certainly not; but wondering does not alter the business. Only imagine the bare possibility of going...
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The Standard Fourth Reader for Public and Private Schools: Containing a ...

Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...others, and too little to himself. EXERCISE XI. Inflection. — See pages 62, 63. 1. Can such things be, And overcome us, like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder' ? 2. Would it not employ a beau prettily enough, if, instead of continually playing with his snuff-box,...
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The Missing Bride

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth - Fiction - 1855 - 636 pages
...prayed, to b« able to give her sorrowing brother peace. CHAPTER XLI. DREAMS AND VISIONS "Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder?" — Shakspcarc. WINTER waned. Mrs. Waugh had attended the Commodore , to the South, for the benefit...
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United States Magazine, Volume 3

Seba Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - 1856 - 592 pages
...on the visit he has had, the troubled usurper inquires, as if thinking aloud : '• Can such things be. And overcome us like a Summer'« cloud, Without our special wonder." From the witches, in the famous scene of the cauldron, modern literature has plucked the rattling couplet...
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The Shakespeare Papers of the Late William Maginn

William Maginn - 1856 - 400 pages
...suddenly breaks up the assembly by the following confession of his horrors : — " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder * You make me Even to the disposition that I am, When now I think you can behold such sights And keep...
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The Shakespeare Papers of the Late William Maginn

William Maginn - 1856 - 372 pages
...suddenly breaks up the assembly by the following confession of his horrors : — " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ? You make mo Even to the disposition that I am, When now I think you can behold such sights And keep...
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Selections from the Irish Quarterly Review: 1st ser. ...

1857 - 626 pages
...Moir — himself a poet — expressly speaks with contempt. Well may we exclaim, • ' Can such things be, And overcome us, like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder 1 " As we find ourselves "racy of the soil," we shall see what Mr. Moir has to say on a subject which...
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The Standard Fifth Reader: (first-class Standard Reader) : for Public and ...

Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...merciful Providence have given us talents', without designing that we should exert them' 1 Can such things be' — And overcome us', like a summer cloud', Without our special wonder' 1 Can the soldier, when he girdeth on his armor, boast like him that pntteth it off' '. Can the merchant...
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The Standard Fourth Reader for Public and Private Schools: Containing a ...

Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 350 pages
...others, and too little to himself. EXERCISE XI. Inflection. — See pages 62, 63. 1. Can such things be, And overcome us, like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder'? 2. Would it not employ a beau prettily enough, if, instead of continually playing with his snuff-box,...
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