... perhaps, the aerial altitude of the fiery scaffold, the spectators without end on every road pouring into Rouen as to a coronation, the surging smoke, the volleying flames, the hostile faces all around, the pitying eye that lurked but here and there... Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 184edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1847 - 892 pages
...aronnd, the pitying eye that lurked but here and there until nature and imperishable trutli broke looso from artificial restraints; these might not be apparent through the mists of the hurrying future. 1 > . the voice that called her to death, that she heard. for ever. Great was the throne of France... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 360 pages
...around, the pitying eye that lurked but here and there, until nature and imperishable truth broke loose from artificial restraints; — these might not be...ever. Great was the throne of France even in those clays, and great was He that sat upon it: but well Joanna knew that not the throne, nor he that sat... | |
| American literature - 1854 - 604 pages
...into the dignity of a poem. Take, for example, his description of the self-devotion of Joan of Arc : Great was the throne of France even in those days, and great was he that sat upon it; but well Joanna knew that not the throne nor he that sat upon it was for her; but, on... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...smoke, the volleying flames ; but the voice that called her to death, — that she heard forever. 4. Great was the throne of France even in those days, and great was he that sat upon it ; but well Joan knew that not the throne, nor he that sat upon it, was for her ; but, on... | |
| David W. Bartlett - Biography - 1859 - 264 pages
...around, the pitying eye that lurked but here and there until nature and imperishable truth broke loose from artificial restraints ; these might not be apparent...the voice that called her to death, that she heard forever. " Great was the throne of France even in those days, and great was he that sat upon it: but... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1862 - 454 pages
...around, the pitying eye that lurked but here and there, until nature and imperishable truth broke loose from artificial restraints; — these might not be...of France even in those days, and great was he that sat upon it : but well Joanna knew that not the throne, nor he that sat upon it, was for her; but,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1865 - 320 pages
...around, the pitying eye that lurked but here and there, until nature and imperishable truth broke loose from artificial restraints ; — these might not be...through the mists of the hurrying future. But the vioice that called her to death, that she heard for ever. Great was the throne of France even in those... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...smoke, the volleying flames ; but the voice that called her to death, — that she heard forever. 4. Great was the throne of France even in those days, and great was he that sat upon it ; but well Jo'an knew that not the throne, nor he that sat upon it, was for her ; but,... | |
| English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...around, the pitying eye that lurked but here and there, until nature and imperishable truth broke loose from artificial restraints; — these might not be...that called her to death, that she heard for ever. oc LVII. SIR WILLIAM NAPIER. 1785—186o. SIR WILLIAM NAPIER was one of the distinguished family of... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1871 - 366 pages
...around, the pitying eye that lurked but here and there, until nature and imperishable truth broke loose from artificial restraints; —these might not be...of France even in those days, and great was he that sat upon it: but well Joanna knew that not the throne, nor he that sat upon it, was for her; but, on... | |
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