 And more than echoes talk along the walls. Here, as I watch'd the dying lamps around, From yonder shrine I heard a hollow sound. "Come, sister, come! (it said, or seem'd to say) Thy place is here, sad sister, come away; Once like thyself, I trembled,...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 249by Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 563 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...sad sister, come away1! 310 Once like thyself, I trembled, wept, and pray'd, Love's victim then, tho' now a sainted maid : But all is calm in this eternal...sleep; Here grief forgets to groan, and love to weep, Ev'n superstition loses ev'ry fear: 315 For God, not man, absolves our frailties here." I come, I come... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...No plots th' alarm to his retirements give ; 'Tis all mankind's concern that he should live. URYDEN. But all is calm in this eternal sleep : Here grief forgets to groan, and love to weep; Ev'n superstition loses every fear ; For God, not man, absolves our frailties here. POPE. Scipio, Great... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 490 pages
...in longforgotten years, once had struggled and suffered like herself, — " ODCC (like herself) that trembled, wept, and prayed, Love's victim then, though now a sainted maid." Exquisite is the passage in which she prefigures a visit yet to come from Abelard to herself — no... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...here, sad sister, come away! Once like thyself, I trembled, wept, and pray'd, Love's victim then, tho' now a sainted maid: But all is calm in this eternal...sleep; Here grief forgets to groan, and love to weep, Ev'n superstition loses ev'ry fear: For God* not man, absolves our frailties here.' I come, I come!... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Criticism - 1909 - 280 pages
...that, in long-forgotten years, once had struggled and suffered like herself, Once (like herself) that trembled, wept, and prayed, Love's victim then, though now a sainted maid. Exquisite is the passage in which she prefigures a visit yet to come from Abelard to herself — no... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...sad sister, come away! 310 Once like thyself, I trembled, wept, and pray'd, Love's victim then, tho' now a sainted maid : But all is calm in this eternal...sleep ; Here grief forgets to groan, and love to weep, Ev'n superstition loses ev'ry fear : For God, not man, absolves our frailties here.' I come, I come... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...sister, come away; Once, like thyself, I trembled, wept, and pray'd, 3,, Love's victim then, tho' uow Ev'n superstition loses ev'ry fear: For God, not man, absolves our frailties here.' I come, I come... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...Once, like thyself, I trembled, wept, and pray'd, jn Love's victim then, tho' now a sainted maid : Rut l i , f ! l Ev'n superstition loses ev'ry fear: For God, not man, absolves our frailties here.' I come, I come... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1916 - 160 pages
...sister, come away ! 3 to 'Once like thyself, I trembled, wept, and pray'd, 'Love's victim then, tho' now a sainted maid: 'But all is calm in this eternal...sleep; 'Here grief forgets to groan, and love to weep, 'Ev'n superstition loses ev'ry fear; 'For God, not man, absolves our frailties here.' I come, I come... | |
 | 1884 - 646 pages
...Once, like thyself, I trembled, wept, and prayed, Love's victim then, though now a sainted maiJ. Hut all is calm in this eternal sleep ; Here grief forgets to groan, and love to weep, Kv'n superstition loses every 1'car ; For God, not man, absolves our frailties here.' The second period... | |
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