 | English literature - 1844 - 640 pages
...could hardly at first put faith in my spying faculty, so singular and deceptive was the transformation. How comes this hair undone ? Its wandering strings must be what blind me so, And yet I tied it fast ! Yes, such was the character assumed by Mrs. Swansdowne on her second appearance. Had she stood before... | |
 | 1821 - 536 pages
...The following is another of the admired passages in this tissue of versified dialogue:— " BEATR. How comes this hair undone ? Its wandering strings must be what blind me so, A nd yet I tied it fast.—O, horrible ! The pavement sinks under my feet! The walls Spin round! I... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...Ч is only a cold dew That starts from your dear brow — Alas! alas! What has befallen ! BEATB1CS. end, Mingle, and so become a part of it, — O, horrible ! The pavement sinks under my feet ! The walls Spin round ! I see a woman weeping there.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...'tis only a cold dew That starts from your dear brow. — Alas ! alas I What has befallen ! BEATRICE. How comes this hair undone ! Its wandering strings must be what blind me so, And yet I tied it fast. — O, horrible ! The pavement sinks under my feet ! The walls Spin round ! I see a woman weeping there,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 402 pages
...'tis only a eold dew That starts from your dear brow. — Alas ! alas ! What has befallen i How eomes this hair undone ! Its wandering strings must be what blind me so, And yet I tied it fast.-O, horrible ! The pavement sinks under my feet ! The walls Spin round ! I see a woman weeping... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...from vour dear brow. — Alas ! alas ! What has befallen i BEATRICE. How comes this hair undone Ï Its wandering strings must be what blind me so, And yet I tied it fast. - 0, horrible ! The pavement sinks under my feet ! The walls Spin round ! I see a woman weeping there,... | |
 | Laman Blanchard - English essays - 1846 - 410 pages
...the whole tribe of slatterns. She might have been ever crying with the forlorn, bewildered Beatrice, How comes this hair undone ? Its wandering strings...must be what blind me so, . And yet I tied it fast ! Yes, such was the character assumed by Mrs. Swansdowne on her second appearance. Had she stood before... | |
 | Laman Blanchard - 1846 - 416 pages
...the whole tribe of slatterns. She might have been ever crying with the forlorn, bewildered Beatrice, How comes this hair undone ? Its wandering strings must be what blind me so, Aud yet I tied it fast ! Yes, such was the character assumed by Mrs. Swansdowne on her second appearance.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...starts from your dear brow. — Alas ! alas ! What has befallen 1 BEATRICE. How comes this hair undone t Its wandering strings must be what blind me so, And yet I tied it fast.— 0, horrible ! The pavement sinks under my feet ! The walls Spin roimd ! I see a woman weeping there,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...: 'tis only a cold dew That starts from your dear brow—Alas! alas! What has befallen ? BEATRICE. How comes this hair undone) Its wandering strings must be what blind mo so, And yet I tied it fast.—O, horrible! The pavement sinks under my feet! The walls Spin round!... | |
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Oh, horrible ! The pavement sinks under my feet ! The walls Spin round ! I see a woman weeping there, And standing calm and motionless, whilst I Slide giddily as the world reels. — My God... 
