| James Russell Lowell - 1902 - 296 pages
...and death ! and death ! still I danced forward ; But it struck home, and here, and in an instant. But such mere women, who, with shrieks and out-cries,...which cut the heart-strings ; Let me die smiling. One kiss on these cold lips, my last ! \kisses IthocUs\ crack — crack — Argo now's Sparta's king.... | |
| Eduard Engel - English literature - 1902 - 516 pages
...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. As the poet has not previously exhibited any kind of sympathy for the heroine, her end does not affect... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 pages
...mere women, who with shrieks and outcries Can 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 : Let me die smiling. Near. 'Tis a truth too ominous. Col. One kiss on these cold lips — my last : crack, crack : Argos,... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - Authors, English - 1904 - 686 pages
...mere women, who with shrieks and outcries Can vow a present end to all their sorrows ; Yet live to vow new pleasures, and out-live them. They are the silent...which cut the heart-strings : Let me die smiling. Near. "Tis a truth too ominous. Col. One kiss on these cold lips ; my last. Crack, crack. Argos now's... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1904 - 710 pages
...mere women, who with shrieks and outcries Can vow a present end to all their sorrows ; Yet live to vow new pleasures, and out-live them. They are the silent...which cut the heart-strings : Let me die smiling. Near. 'Tis a truth too ominous. Col. One kiss on these cold lips ; my last. Crack, crack. Argos now's... | |
| John Ford - 1906 - 244 pages
...Of death ! 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...griefs which cut the heartstrings; Let me die smiling. Near. 'Trs-zrteuth_tocLaI»iBeas. Cal. One kiss on these cold lips, my last ! — [Kisses Ithocles^... | |
| Joseph O'Connor - 1911 - 360 pages
...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 —... | |
| Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...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...which cut the heart-strings ; Let me die smiling. Near. 'Tis a truth too ominous. Cal. One kiss on these cold lips, my last! [Kisses ITHOCLES. —Crack,... | |
| James Redmond - Drama - 1981 - 280 pages
...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... | |
| John Ford - Literary Collections - 1986 - 392 pages
...mere women, who with shrieks and outcries Can 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 me die smiling. NEARCHUS. 'Tis a truth too ominous. CALANTHA. One kiss on these cold lips; my... | |
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