I've slept With mine eyes open a great while. No falsehood Equals a broken faith ; there's not a hair Sticks on my head but, like a leaden plummet, It sinks me to the grave : I must creep thither ; The journey is not long. Dramatic Works of John Ford ... - Page 333by John Ford - 1827Full view - About this book
| John Ford - English drama - 1811 - 522 pages
...Equals a broken faith ; there's not a hair Sticks on my head but, like a leaden plummet, It sinks me to' the grave. I must creep thither ; The journey...everlasting darkness, Before the light of nature, chiefly formed For the whole world's delight, feel an eclipse So universal. Org. Wisdom, look ye, Begins to... | |
| British drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...grave. I must creep thithct ; The journey is not long. It/i. But thou, Penthea, Hast many years, 1 hope, to number yet, Ere thou canst travel that way. Bass. Let the sun first Be wrapped up in an everlasting darkness, Before the light of nature, chiefly formed For the whole world's... | |
| English drama - 1811 - 718 pages
...Equals a broken faith ; there's not a hair Sticks on my head, but, like a leaden plummet, It sinks me ok o» these ; Are they not yours? erstand they thus neglecte Itn. .But thou, Penthea, Hast many years, I hope, to number yet, Ere thou canst travel that way. Bait.... | |
| John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 712 pages
...Equals a broken faith ; there's not a hair Sticks on my head but, like a leaden plummet, It sinks me to the grave : I must creep thither ; The journey is not long. It h. But thou, Penthea, Hast many years, I hope, to number yet, Ere thou canst travel that way. Bass.... | |
| John Ford - 1831 - 396 pages
...Equals a broken faith ; there's not a hair Sticks on my head but, like a leaden plummet, It sinks me to the grave : I must creep thither ; The journey...everlasting darkness, Before the light of nature, chiefly fbrm'd For the whole world's delight, feel an eclipse So universal ! Org. Wisdom, look ye, begins To... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 584 pages
...Equals a broken faith ; there 's not a hair Sticks on my head but, like a leaden plummet, It sinks me to the grave ; I must creep thither ; The journey is not long. " Pen. Spare your hand ; Believe me, I '11 not hurt it. " Org. My heart too. " Pen. Complain not though... | |
| John Ford - 1869 - 406 pages
...Equals a broken faith • there's not a hair Sticks on my head but, like a leaden plummet, It sinks me to the grave : I must creep thither • The journey...yet, Ere thou canst travel that way. Bass. Let the sun16 first Be wrapp'd up in an everlasting darkness, Before the light of nature, chiefly form'd For... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...Equals a broken faith ; there's not a hair Sticks on my head, but, like a leaden plummet, It sinks me to the grave : I must creep thither ; The journey is not long. . . . Since I was first a wife, I might have been Mother to many pretty prattling babes ; They would... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 556 pages
...Equals a broken faith ; there's not a hair Sticks on my head, but, like a leaden plummet, It sinks me to the grave : I must creep thither ; The journey is not long. . . . Since I was first a wife, I might have been Mother to many pretty prattling babes ; They would... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 558 pages
...Equals a broken faith ; there's not a hair Sticks on my head, but, like a leaden plummet, It sinks me to the grave: I must creep thither; The journey is not long.' Calantha, after enduring the most crushing calamities, concealed under a show of mirth, breaks under... | |
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