 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...SHAKSPEARE. There is so hot a summer in my brain That all my bowels crumble up to dust. SHAKSPEARE. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ? SHAKSPEARE. 'Tis the summer prime, when the noiseless air In perfumed chalice... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1879 - 178 pages
...among us as the spasms which speak of a still more profound and universal misery ? I say to you — " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud. Without our special wonder ? " For all I know, some Aberdeen newspaper may "large me with exaggeration, but... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 996 pages
...suddenly brushed away — at seeing a continued series of brilliant successes flashing around the O national standard, and dazzling all eyes with their...brightness ? " Can such things be, and overcome us, like a Rummer cloud," without, not merely our " special wonder," but our special exultation ? He who will... | |
 | Charles John Plumptre - 1881 - 524 pages
...yesterday the bird of night did sit, Even at noon-day, upon the marketplace, Hooting and shrieking. 6. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - 1881 - 128 pages
...one's self, exacting one's own penalty, in the solitude of one's closet, into confession to a priest! " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder? " Of the two remaining ones of the six quotations from St. Chrysostom, TP (p. 522)... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 588 pages
...sore with the tales of our flag insulted in every sea, and our countrymen oppressed in every port ; is it a matter of surprise that we should break forth...peaceful insignificance to proud competition with a power whoso laurels have been the slow growth of ages, will easily excuse the temporary effervescence of... | |
 | Alexander Edwin Sweet, John Armoy Knox - 1883 - 714 pages
...our sagacious Indian policy. In the language of the gifted Dr. Watts, we are forced to exclaim, — " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ? " There are two Indian reservations, Fort Sill and Fort Stanton, from which the... | |
 | 1884 - 518 pages
...bear comparison in any respect to the well managed private collections of any of the professors. " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder?" MACBETH. Note : We did not try a dynamometer on the library, fearing the embarrassment... | |
 | 1884 - 228 pages
...decade we have described may possibly, on reading this book, rub their eyes and marvel and say : ' Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ?' Even those of us who are not blind need perspective rightly to see, and rightly... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 458 pages
...city do better than follow our example. The price of tickets for the six lectures is — ninepence. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud Without our special wonder ? THE LECTUBE-ROOM. The lecture was announced for one o'clock, and arriving at that... | |
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