 | John Ford - Drama - 1980 - 266 pages
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 | 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 - Drama - 1986 - 388 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... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - Civilization, Medieval, in literature - 1987 - 346 pages
...death, and death. Still I danc'd forward; But it struck home, and here, and in an instant. . . . These are the silent griefs which cut the heartstrings; Let me die smiling. (5.3.67-71; 75-76)* This acknowledgment of grief balances her earlier reaction to the news, a reaction... | |
 | Miriam Farris Allott - Biography & Autobiography - 1974 - 500 pages
...death, 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. One kiss on these cold lips - my last; crack, crack, Argos now 's Sparta's king. They looked terror... | |
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I but deceived your eyes with antic gesture, When one news straight came huddling on another Of death ! and death ! and death ! still I danced forward ; But it struck home, and here, and in an instant. Be such mere women, who with shrieks and outcries... 
