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 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...dullness to my trembling heart, Give me thy hand, »ud let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly pp -ak to me. and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with it» echoes. LEON. L -it us return ; the horror of this place And silence will increase your melancholy.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 414 pages
...scene among the tombs, in ' The Mourning Bride ' : — ' Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice. My own affrights me with its echoes.' " Nothing could exceed the expressive manner in which he repeated this exclamation of Almeria... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1883 - 358 pages
...shoot a dullness to my trembling heart ! Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, speak — and let me hear thy voice ; My own affrights me with its echoes. There wanted nothing but the marble statue of the commander striding along the echoing cloisters... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1884 - 498 pages
...look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me and let me hear Thy voice, my own affrights me with its echo. Let me say, after reading this, that I know of no subject on which I would not rather take Dr.... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 pages
...look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes." In 1700 Congreve produced what is perhaps his best play, the " Way of the World ;" it failed,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 500 pages
...look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. Act ii. sc. 1. 7 ' Swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry.' Romeo and... | |
 | Henry Grey - 1888 - 134 pages
...fancy some one is coming, and retire. Almeria enters cautiously with her attendant, and says, — ' Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes." Leonora would return, but the princess insists upon being taken to Anselmo's tomb, and they... | |
 | William Congreve - 1888 - 540 pages
...look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.i Leon. Let us return ; the horrors of this place, And silence, will increase your melancholy.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1888 - 214 pages
...cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand ! Oh speak to me ! nay, speak ! and let me hear Thy voice ! My own affrights me with its echoes. Almeria is proceeding to visit, in the mausoleum, the body of the King of Valencia, father... | |
 | James Boaden - 1893 - 554 pages
...look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice : Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice. My own affrights me with its echoes.' But Congreve, as a poet, has a seat the proudest that a poet can occupy; nor should we be... | |
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