... oblivion of it. For some months the cloud seemed to grow thicker and thicker. The lines in Coleridge's Dejection — I was not then acquainted with them — exactly describe my case: A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled,... Novels - Seite 73von Susan Ferrier - 1894Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1874 - 596 Seiten
...describe my case : " A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear." ' In vain I sought relief from my favourite books ; those memorials of past nobleness and greatness... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 260 Seiten
...exertion. Mine WHS become • A grief without a pnng, void, Hark, and drear, A heavy, drowsy, unimpnssion'd grief, Which finds no natural outlet, or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear. t Even affection for my own family, which till novr had ever tenanted my bosom, appeared for a time... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1829 - 378 Seiten
...to stimulate me to exertion. Mine was become A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A heavy, drowsy, unimpassion'd grief, Which finds no natural outlet, or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear. Even affection for my own family, which till now had ever tenanted my bosom, appeared for a time to... | |
| Susan Ferrier - 1831 - 508 Seiten
...Hers was become — "A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassiou'd grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In...emotions. And pride would sometimes give an indignant throh, and light up her languid eye, and suffuse her pale cheek, and she would struggle to cast off... | |
| william harrison - 1867 - 518 Seiten
...time Edith's becomes A grief without a pang, void, dark, and dreary, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear. It is commonly remarked, as Mr. Herbert Spencer has said, that the * Diary of Madame d'Arblay, vol.... | |
| 1867 - 514 Seiten
...time Edith's becomes A grief without a pang, void, dark, and dreary, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, "Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear. It is commonly remarked, as Mr. Herbert Spencer has said, that the * Diary of Madame d'Arblay, vol.... | |
| 1874 - 618 Seiten
...describe my case : 'A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear.' " * It is clear as daylight that Stuart Mill was now realizing the utter insufficiency of any benevolent... | |
| 1874 - 332 Seiten
...describe my case : — ' A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A drowsy stifled uuimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear.' In vain I sought relief from my favourite books; those memorials of past nobleness and greatness, from... | |
| 1877 - 822 Seiten
...lines from Coleridge : "A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear." He was not free from suggestions of self-destruction which arise in such mental conditions, as we gather... | |
| William Walters - 1878 - 128 Seiten
...describes, — ' ' A grief without a pang, — void, dark, and dreary, — A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear ; " — such as TENNYSON attributes to one of his heroines, when, — " Home they brought her warrior... | |
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