WHEN maidens such as Hester die Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And her together. A springy motion in... The American Whig Review - Strana 5481848Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1838 - 826 str.
...world. They remind you of Charles Lamb's " Hester," one of their own sisterhood — " When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try With vain endeavour. " Her parents held the Quaker rule, Which doth the human feeling cool ; But she was trained... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 str.
...comes, when turhulent guilty hlisses Tend thee the kiss that poisons 'mid caressings. WHEN maidens such as Hester die. Their place ye may not well supply. Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I hy force he led To think upon the wormy... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 str.
...The Wife's Trial; or, the Intruding Widow •. •. •. . •. 435 POEMS. HESTER. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, . With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 str.
...comes, when turbulent guilty blisses Tend thee the kiss that poisons 'mid caressings. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply. Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 634 str.
...already attempted we should prefer for Sapphics the metre of Lamb's ' Hester ' : — ' When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour,' — in which metre the last verse rhymes with the last of the next stanza. We should prefer... | |
| 1842 - 504 str.
...need, And his labours wiselicr deem'd of, Did omit what the queen dream'd of. HESTER. When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 516 str.
...God) unbeantified, Disorder'd, marr'd, where such strange things are acted. HESTER. WHEN maidens such as Hester die. Their place ye may not well supply,...wormy bed And her together. A springy motion in her gnit, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, That flush'd her spirit. I know... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 str.
...may be considered among English essayists a genuine and original master. To Hater. When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more she hath been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 str.
...be considered among English essayists u genuine and original master. To Hater. When maidens such a» the ancient statutes on this head remain unrepcaled by parliament, it appears that, Tain cudeavour. A month or more she hath been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 str.
...thy graces ; And in thy borders take delight, An unconquer'd Canasnite. HESTER. \V i ; % maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try. With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead., Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
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