 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1815 - 572 pages
...offer.' His discovery of himself to the monk is in a high degree grand and impressive: ' Then koderick knelt Before the holy man and strove to speak. Thou...the word, And shudderings, like an ague fit, from head To foot convulsed him; till at length, subduing His nature to the effort, he exclaim'd, Spreading... | |
 | 1815 - 670 pages
...in all those years Hath such a contrite and a broken heart Appear'd before me. O my brother, Heavert Hath sent thee for thy comfort, and for mine, That...last earthly act may reconcile A sinner to his God.' — pp. 9 — 11. Roderick confesses his name and his sins, and the monk determines to live a little... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1815 - 386 pages
...eomfort, and for mine, That my last earthly aet may reeoneile A liuner to his God. . Then Roderiek knelt Before the holy man, and strove to speak. Thou seest, he eried, . . thou seest, . . hut memory And suffoeating thoughts represt the word, And shudderings, like... | |
 | Robert Southey - Fore-edge paintings - 1818 - 318 pages
...all those years Hath such a contrite and a broken heart Appeared before me. O my brother, I leaven Hath sent thee for thy comfort, and for mine, That...the word, And shudderings, like an ague fit, from head To foot convulsed him ; till at length, subduing • His nature to the effort, he exclaimed, Spreading... | |
 | Robert Southey - English literature - 1829 - 806 pages
...years Hath such a contrite and a broken heart Appeared before me. O my brother, Heaven Hath sent thec for thy comfort, and for mine, That my last earthly...man, and strove to speak. Thou seest, he cried,— (hou seest, — but memory And suffocating thoughts reprcst the word, And shudderings, like an ague... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1839 - 618 pages
...occur to us, what a capital picture would Allston make of Roderick, kneeling before the old monk : "Then Roderick knelt Before the holy man, and strove...the word, And shudderings, like an ague fit, from head To foot convulsed him ; till at length, subduing His nature to the effort, he exclaimed, Spreading... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1839 - 604 pages
...occur to us, what a capital picture would Allston make of Roderick, kneeling before the old monk : " Then Roderick knelt Before the holy man, and strove...memory And suffocating thoughts represt the word, And shuddering-*, like an ague fit, from head To foot convulsed him ; till at length, subduing His nature... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1848 - 848 pages
...reader may be gratified with having the following lin~ ftom Mr. Southey's Roderick inserted here : — 'Then Roderick knelt Before the holy man, and strove...the word, And shudderings, like an ague fit, from head To foot convulsed him; till at length, subduing His nature to the effort, he exclaim'd, Spreading... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 378 pages
...gratified at seeing a parallel passage, which never can be produced except to the honour of both : — " ' Then Roderick knelt Before the holy man, and strove...the word, And shudderings, like an ague fit, from head To foot convulsed him. Till at length subduing His nature to the effort, he exclaimed, Spreading... | |
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Then Roderick knelt Before the holy man, and strove to speak. Thou seest, he cried, • -thou seest,- -but memory And suffocating thoughts represt the word, And shudderings, like an ague fit, from... 
