 Meanwhile Nydia, when separated by the throng from Glaucus and lone, had in vain endeavoured to regain them. In vain she raised that plaintive cry so peculiar to the blind ; it was lost amidst a thousand shrieks of more selfish terror. Again and again...  The Last Days of Pompeii - Page 452by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1840 - 474 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1834 - 476 pages
...once more wrapped them as a veil ; and Glaucus, his bold heart at last quelled and despairing, sunk beneath the cover of an arch, and clasping lone to...plaintive cry so peculiar to the blind ; it was lost amid a thousand shrieks of more selfish terror. Again and again she returned to the spot where they... | |
 | English fiction - 1834 - 672 pages
...bold heart at last quelled and despairing, sunk beneath the cover of an arch, and clasping lone to hia heart — a bride on that couch of ruin — resigned...plaintive cry so peculiar to the blind ; it was lost amid a thousand shrieks of more selfish terror. Again and again she returned to the spot where they... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1839 - 450 pages
...far more profuse than before, scattered fresh desolation along the streets. Darkness once more wrapt them as a veil; and Glaucus, his bold heart at last...the spot where they had been divided — to find her companionsgone, to seize every fugitive — to inquire of Glaucus — to be dashed aside in the impatience... | |
 | Ermine Owen - Readers - 1891 - 306 pages
...showers." Meanwhile Nydia, when separated by the throng from Glaucus and lone, had in vain endeavored to regain them. In vain she raised that plaintive...amidst a thousand shrieks of more selfish terror. Weak, yet fearless, supported by but one wish, she was a very emblem of Psyche in her wanderings; of... | |
 | James Baldwin - Readers - 1897 - 430 pages
...die. Meanwhile Nydia, when separated by the throng from Glaucus and lone, had in vain endeavored to 15 regain them. In vain she raised that plaintive cry...divided — to find her companions gone, to seize every fugi20 tive — to inquire of Glaucus — to be dashed aside in the impatience of distraction. Who... | |
 | James Baldwin - Children's poetry - 1897 - 220 pages
...die. Meanwhile Nydia, when separated by the throng from Glaucus and lone, had in vain endeavored to 15 regain them. In vain she raised that plaintive cry...divided — to find her companions gone, to seize every f ugi20 tive — to inquire of Glaucus — to be dashed aside in the impatience of distraction. Who... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 564 pages
...arch, and, clasping lone to his heart — a bride on that couch of ruin — resigned himself to die. vain she raised that plaintive cry so peculiar to the blind ; it was lost amid a thousand shrieks of more selfish terror. Again, and again she returned to the spot where they... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 574 pages
...to die. Meanwhile, Nydia, when separated by the throng from Glaucus and lone, had in vain endeavored to regain them. In vain she raised that plaintive cry so peculiar to the blind ; it was lost amid a thousand shrieks of more selfish terror. Again and again she returned to the spot where they... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 436 pages
...to die. Meanwhile, Nydia, when separated by the throng from Glaucus and lone, had in vain endeavored to regain them. In vain she raised that plaintive cry so peculiar to the blind ; it was lost amid a thousand shrieks of more selfish terror. Again and again she returned to the spot where they... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1903 - 504 pages
...consciousness. Meanwhile Nydia, when separated by the throng from Glaucus and lone, had in vain endeavored to regain them. In vain she raised that plaintive...blind ; it was lost amidst a thousand shrieks of more 25 selfish terror. Again and again she returned to the spot where they had been divided, to be dashed... | |
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