 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1897 - 268 pages
...days' conference with the dead I 1 Vucheiuoflfafan. L From them I should learn somewhat, I am son, I never shall know here. I'll tell thee a miracle ; I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow : The heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The earth of flaming sulphur, yet I am not mad,... | |
 | Elisabeth Luther Cary - England - 1898 - 426 pages
...gentler echo to the Duchess of Malfi's exceeding bitter cry, ' O that it were possible we might But hold some two days' conference with the dead ! From them I should learn something, I am sure, I never shall learn here,' ' and finds in them a supreme example of the " heavenly... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 276 pages
...air, etc. Mr. JC Collins (Cornhill Mag. Jan. 1880) compares Webster, Duchess of Malfi, iv. 2 : " The heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The earth of flaming sulphur." THE LOTOS-EATERS. IN the ed. of 1832, where the poem was first published, line 7 reads " Above the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 358 pages
...Kassandra, and with the line, "All earth and air seem only burning fire, Webster," Duchess of Malfi:— The heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The earth of flaming sulphur. 1833. There is a dale in Ida, lovelier Than any in old Ionia, beautiful With emerald slopes of sunny... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1900 - 514 pages
...longing Webster describes in the ' Duchess of Melfi ' :— " ' O that it were possible we might But hold some two days' conference with the dead ! From them I should learn something I am sure I never shall learn here. ' " "July 26. — I took leave of the Prince in his bedroom... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1900 - 468 pages
...conference with the dead ! From them I should learn somewhat, I am sure, I never shall know here. I'll teach thee a miracle; I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow : The heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The earth of flaming sulphur, yet I am not mad.... | |
 | American fiction - 1901 - 544 pages
...another In the other world? Cart. Yes, out of question. Duch. O that it were possible we might But hold some two days' conference with the dead! From...learn somewhat, I am sure, I never shall know here. To increase her mental agony, Ferdinand lets loose in her prison a herd of madmen , who chatter incoherently... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1920 - 638 pages
...to enliven his sister's last moments. It is preluded by the Duchess's beautiful speech to Cariola : I'll tell thee a miracle: I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow : The heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The earth of flaming sulphur, yet I am not mad.... | |
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O that it were possible we might But hold some two days conference with the dead, From them I should learn somewhat I am sure I never shall know here. I'll tell thee a miracle ; I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow. Th... 
