 | 1856 - 880 pagina’s
...lines as these: "We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. "So...silently we seemed to speak. So slowly moved about, Âswehadlentherhalf our powers To eke her living out " Our very hopee belied our fears, Our fears our... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 pagina’s
...into LATIN ELEGIACS: WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly mov'd about, As we had lent her half our power« To eke her living out.... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1856 - 380 pagina’s
...still as death ! " They watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, .As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently they seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As they had lent her half their powers To eke her living... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1857 - 628 pagina’s
...nl'., lines run thus: We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So...So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powen To eke her being out Our very hope belied our fears ; Our fears our hope belied ; We thought... | |
 | 1895 - 722 pagina’s
...catches a glimpse of his trick of antithesis which he has employed with such good effect elsewhere : " Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears, our hopes...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died." Thus, while adhering roughly to the divisions "comic" and "serious," it is necessary to keep in view... | |
 | 1858 - 674 pagina’s
...imperceptible the passage from calm slumber to calmer death, so unobserved the merging of one in the other. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. The sight of sleeping childhood is often suggestive, to their elders, of the more solemn rest that... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 pagina’s
...[JfnuV by J. BLOCKLBT, We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pagina’s
...Loiigfellow. THE DEATHBED. We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
 | 1859 - 616 pagina’s
...lines run thus : We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So...moved about. As we had lent her half our powers To ckc her being out Our very hope belied our fears ; Our fears our hope belied ; We thought her dying... | |
 | Severn river - 1859 - 408 pagina’s
...mir baô @фwert um, la^ bao trauern ! Siebe ftirbt im Setf»e п{ф{. SCHILLER. The Sleep of Death. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. HOOD. Servetqve Sepulcro. A. Ergo non redituras ibit Héctor Qva diris manibus furens Achilles Patroclum... | |
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WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we... 
