 He rose, and with a cold and gentle grasp He took her hand; a moment o'er his face A tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced, and then it faded, as it came...  The works of lord Byron - Page 234by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1845 - 522 pages
...sufficiently awakened to render him alive to the import of the subject to which he makes response. "And he stood calm and quiet, and he spoke The fitting vows, but heard not his own words ; And all thmgs reel'd around him." Indeed, so dreamy, so lost was Philippe to his actual situation on this memorable... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 470 pages
...sufficiently awakened to render him alive to the import of the subject to which he makes response. "And he stood calm and quiet, and he spoke The fitting vows, but heard not his own words; And all thmgs reel'd around him." Indeed, so dreamy, so lost was Philippe to his actual situation on this memorable... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...saw not all. He rose, and, with a cold and gpntle grasp, He took her hand ; a moment o'er his face A tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced, — and then it faded as it came : He dropp'd the hand he held, and with slow steps Retired, — but not as bidding her adieu ; For... | |
 | Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pages
...lay in Madame de St. Amande's ing beneath her foot with a very savage smile : — One moment o'er her face The tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced, and then it faded as it came. " He injured me," she added ; " but I have long since paid back the debt with a terrible interest.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1846 - 332 pages
...and the quivering shock That in the antique oratory shook His bosom in its solitude ; and then, As in that hour, a moment o'er his face The tablet of unutterable thoughts D 2 Was traced, — and then it faded as it came ; And he stood calm and quiet, and he spoke The fitting... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...saw not all. He rose, and, with a cold and gentle grasp, He took her hand ; a moment o'er his face A tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced, — and then it faded as it came: He dropp'd the hand he held, and with slow steps Retired, — but not as bidding her adieu ; For they... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...she saw not alL He rose, and with a cold and gentle grasp He took her hand ; a moment o'er his face A tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced, and then it faded, as it came ; He dropped the hand he held, and with slow steps Retired, but not as bidding her adieu, For they... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 396 pages
...saw not all. He rose, and with a cold and gentle grasp He took her hand ; a moment o'er his face A tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced, and then it faded as it came ; He dropp'd the hand he held, and with slow steps Return'd, but not as bidding her adieu, For they... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, American - 1849 - 394 pages
...saw not all. He rose, and with a cold and gentle grasp He took her hand ; a moment o'er his face A tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced, and then it faded as it came; He dropp'd the hand he held, and with slow steps Return'd, but not as bidding her adieu, For they did... | |
 | lady Emily Charlotte M. Ponsonby - 1850 - 328 pages
...self-same aspect, and the quivering shock That in the antique oratory shook His bosom in its solitude And then it faded as it came, And he stood calm and...vows — but heard not his own words, And all things reeled around him BYRON. IT was May-day — such a May -day as one has but once or twice in a century... | |
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