 I lay inactive. Then like a chorus the passion deepened. Some greater interest was at stake, some mightier cause than ever yet the sword had pleaded or trumpet had proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms; hurryings to and fro; trepidations of innumerable...  MacMillan's Magazine - Page 447edited by - 1886Full view - About this book
 | William James Dawson - English prose literature - 1906 - 324 pages
...lights ; tempest and human faces ; and at last, with the sense that all was lost, female forms and features that were worth all the world to me ; and but a moment allowed — and clasped hands with heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells ! and with a sigh, such as the caves... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 570 pages
...proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms; hurryings to and fro; trepidations of innumerable fugitives. I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad ; darkness...with the sense that all was lost, female forms, and uie features that were worth all the world to me, and but a moment allowed, — and clasped hands,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English essays - 1911 - 428 pages
...proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms; hurryings to and fro ; trepidations of innumerable fugitives, I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad ; darkness...me'; and but a moment allowed — and clasped hands with heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells! and, with a sigh such as the caves... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1911 - 384 pages
...of his last hours at school before running away, or that dream in the " Opium Eater " which ends : "And at last, with the sense that all was lost, female...; and but a moment allowed — and clasped hands, with heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells ! and, with a sigh such as the caves... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms ; hurryings to and fro ; trepidations of innumerable fugitives, I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad ; darkness...; and but a moment allowed — and clasped hands, with heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells ! and, with a sigh such as the caves... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 688 pages
...innumerable fugitives, I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad; darkness and lights, tempests and human faces ; and at last, with the sense that all was lost, female forms and clasped hands, and heart-breaking partings, and then, everlasting farewells, and with a sigh the sound... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1913 - 304 pages
...proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms ; hurryings to and fro ; trepidations of innumerable fugitives, I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad ; darkness...; and but a moment allowed — and clasped hands, with heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells ! and, with a sigh such as the caves... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1913 - 304 pages
...proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms ; hurryings to and fro ; trepidations of innumerable fugitives, I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad ; darkness...that all was lost, female forms, and the features thaj^were worth all the wCrld to me ; and but a moment allowed — and clasped handsj'wilh heart-breaking... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms; hurryings to and fro; trepidations of innumerable fugitives. I knew {- #t+ (]/ ) ) /_ - - ! 1 The music was written in 1727 by Handel for the coronation of George II. 2 Cf. The Tempest, III,... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...proclaimed. Then came sudden alarms ; hurryings to and fro ; trepidations of innumerable fugitives. 1 knew past, And I saw my stout galloper Roland at last,...The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray : 1 The music was written in 1727 by Handel for the coronation of George II. 2 Cf . The Tempest, III,... | |
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