 But hold some two days conference with the dead, From them I should learn somewhat I am sure I never shall know here. I'll tell thee a miracle ; I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow. Th...  The Popular Educator - Page 2991867Full view - About this book
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 706 pages
...here. I 'll tell you a miracle : I am not mad yet to my cause of sorrow ; The heavens o'er my head seem made of molten brass, The earth of flaming sulphur...I am not mad. I am acquainted with sad misery, As the tanned galley-slave is with his oar : Necessity makes me suffer constantly, And custom makes it... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - England - 1884 - 392 pages
...yet, to my cause of sorrow, The heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The earth of naming sulphur : yet I am not mad, I am acquainted with sad misery As the tann'd galley slave is with the oar : Necessity makes me suffer constantly, And custom makes it... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - England - 1884 - 394 pages
...tell thee a miracle," she says to her maid Cariola — " I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow, The heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The earth of naming sulphur : yet I am not mad, I am acquainted with sad misery As the tann'd galley slave is with... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1884 - 402 pages
...sure I never shall know here. I'll tell thee a miracle ; I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow. The heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The earth of naming sulphur, yet I am not mad. I am acquainted with sad misery, As the tann'd galley-slave is with... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1887 - 584 pages
...sure I never shall know here. I 'll tell thee a miracle ; I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow. The heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The...I am not mad; I am acquainted with sad misery, As the tann'd galley-slave is with his oar; And custom makes it easy. Who do I look like now ? Car. Like... | |
 | John Webster, Cyril Tourneur - 1888 - 502 pages
...sure, I never shall know here. I'll tell thee a miracle ; I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow : The Heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The...yet I am not mad. I am acquainted with sad misery As the tanned galley-slave is with his oar ; Necessity makes me suffer constantly, And custom makes it... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - English drama - 1890 - 628 pages
...sure, I never shall know here. I'll tell thee a miracle ; I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow : The Heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The...yet I am not mad. I am acquainted with sad misery As the tanned galley-slave is with his oar ; Necessity makes me suffer constantly, 30 And custom makes... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson, Frederick James Rowe, William Trego Webb - 1890 - 182 pages
...fire, how it comes upon me now. " 264. all earth ... fire. Cf. Webster, Duchess of Malfi, iv. 2 : " The heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The earth of flaming sulphur." THE LOTOS-EATERS. IXTRODUCTION. THIS poem was first published in 1832. In Homer's Odyssey ix. 82, a... | |
 | English periodicals - 1892 - 664 pages
...by night and day All earth and air seem only burning fire, to Webster (" Duchess of Malfi ") : The heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The earth of glowing sulphur. If this be imitation, no one dare write more ! Compare also the following instances... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1893 - 392 pages
...with the dead ! From them I should learn somewhat I am sure I never shall know here. I 'll tell thee a miracle ; I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow....I am not mad : I am acquainted with sad misery, As the tann'd galley-slave is with his oar ; 20 Necessity makes me suffer constantly, And custom makes... | |
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