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" And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. "
The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces - Page 25
by Samuel Johnson - 1781
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Golden Leaves from the British and American Dramatic Poets

John William Stanhope Hows - 1865 - 592 pages
...a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. Leon. Let us return ; the horror of this place And silence will increase your melancholy. Aim. It may...
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The British Poets, Volume 1

1866 - 398 pages
...shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice, Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes." s22 A part in the then revived comedy of the Pilgrim, by Beaumont and Fletcher, in the dramatis persons...
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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice : Nay quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice, — my own affrights me with its echoes. CONGREVE. Mourning Bride. AGHAST the maiden rose, White as her veil, and stood before the Queen As...
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Folia silvulae: sive, Eclogae poetarum Anglicorum in Latinum et ..., Volume 2

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870 - 524 pages
...shoot a dullness to my trembling heart Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear thy voice; — my own affrights me with its echoes. W. CONGREVE ¡427 Rome, Rome, thou now resemblest a ship at random wandering in a boisterous sea, when...
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At Nightfall and Midnight: Musings After Dark

Francis Jacox - 1873 - 490 pages
...tombs in The Mourning Bride — ' Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice. My own affrights me with its echoes.'" 268 AN OLD MAN'S DISTRESS IN THE DARK. Nothing, we are told, could exceed the expressive manner in...
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A Record of My Artistic Life, Volume 1

John Burley Waring - 1873 - 378 pages
...And terror on my aching sight. * * 0 ive me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice, Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice, my own affrights me with its echoes." Though much of the sublime and shadowy dread which characterises this passage, arises from the feeling...
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Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice; — my own affrights me with its echoes. WILLIAM CONOBEVE. SONNET. OH how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which...
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Tales from the Old Dramatists

Marmaduke Edmonstone Browne - 1878 - 360 pages
...a chilness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes." The part of Almeria, originally designed' for and " created " by Mrs. Bracegirdle, was afterwards played...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 3

Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...a chillness to my trembling heart, Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice— my own affrights me with its echoes. LEoN. L'?t us return ; the horror of this place And silence will increase your melancholy. ^ ALM. It...
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Spirits Before Our Eyes

William Henry Harrison - 1879 - 248 pages
...chilliness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice : Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice— my own affrights me with its echoes. Let this state of mind be carried one step farther, and irruptions from the world of spirits begin....
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