I stood checked for a moment ; awe, not fear, fell upon me ; and, whilst I stood, a solemn wind began to blow — the saddest that ear ever heard. It was a wind that might have swept the fields of mortality for a thousand centuries. Papers of the Manchester Literary Club - Página 9por Manchester Literary Club - 1879Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1845 - 826 páginas
...spring to those heavenly lips with tears and never-ending kisses? But so it was not. I stood checked for a moment ; awe, not fear, fell upon me ; and,...whilst I stood, a solemn wind began to blow — the most mournful that ear ever heard. Mournful ! that is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 páginas
...spring to those heavenly lips with tears and never-ending kisses ? But so it was not. I stood checked for a moment ; awe, not fear, fell upon me ; and, whilst I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ear ever heard. Mournful ! that is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 300 páginas
...spring to those heavenly lips with tears and never-ending kisses e But so it was not. I stood checked for a moment; awe, not fear, fell upon me ; and, whilst I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ear ever heard. Mournful ! that is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept... | |
| 1854 - 558 páginas
...himself, at the time a child of six years old, standing alone by the death-bed — I stood cheeked for a moment ; awe, not fear, fell upon me ; and whilst I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, tho saddest that ear ever heard. It was a wind that might have swept the fields of mortality for a... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 páginas
...spring to those heavenly lips with tears and never-ending kisses ? But so it was not. I stood checked for a moment; awe, not fear, fell upon me ; and, whilst I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, — the most mournful that ear ever heard. Mournful! that is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 402 páginas
...spring to those heavenly lips with tears and never-ending kisses ? But so it was not. I stood checked for a moment; awe, not fear, fell upon me ; and, whilst I stood, a solemn wind began to blow—-the saddest that ear ever heard. It was a wind that might have swept the fields of mortality... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 404 páginas
...spring to those heavenly lips with tears and never-ending kisses ? But so it was not. I stood checked for 'a moment ; awe, not fear, fell upon me ; and, whilst I stood, a_sole,rnu wind bggan to. blow — the saddest that car ever heard. Tt was a wind that might have swept... | |
| University magazine - 1854 - 790 páginas
...or for heart to conceive, any symbols more pathetic of life and the glory of life. " I stood checked for a moment ; awe, not fear, fell upon me ; and,...solemn wind began to blow — the saddest that ear ever hoard. It was a wind that might have swept the fields of mortality for a thousand centuries. Many times... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 636 páginas
...round to the corpse. There lay the sweet childish figure ; there the angel face. . . . I stood checked for a moment ; awe, not fear, fell upon me ; and whilst...ever heard. It was a wind that might have swept the iields of mortality for a thousand centuries. Many times since, upon summer days, when the sun is about... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1859 - 614 páginas
...hands, laid palm to palm, as if repeating the supplications of closing anguish." And as he gazed, " a solemn wind began to blow — the saddest that ear...swept the fields of mortality for a thousand centuries " ; whose " hollow, sad, Memnonian, but saintly swell," he calls "the one great audible symbol of eternity"!... | |
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