 | McGill University - 1901 - 394 pages
...loved, unwillingly I slew them. Now, I kiss them on the forehead quietly." Then with a shudder — " She takes away my strength. I did not know the dead...hair. Hide them. They look like children fast asleep !" In " Herod " we have something more positive, more forceful, more life-like, but less delicately... | |
 | 1917 - 872 pages
...the forehead quietly. He is shaken — then the agony breaks from his lips in one last quivering cry: She takes away my strength. I did not know the dead...hair. Hide them ! They look like children fast asleep ! Stephen Phillips' next play, Herod, might be described as a work of almost aching beauty. Its dramatic... | |
 | 1901 - 472 pages
...gazes at them without speaking, all the iron of the man melted down to tears ; then he says quietly, " I did not know the dead could have such hair, Hide them ; they look like children fast asleep." DL James. J*"- »9«»] ' Portfolio. 179 The curtain has fallen on the last act of L'Aiglon; — the... | |
 | 1900 - 664 pages
...o'er your eyebrow — bind it up." A last master stroke lies in his broken speech over the bier : " She takes away my strength. I did not know the dead could have such hair." These are but few of the many striking effects which make this drama. It is heavy-laden with them.... | |
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Not easily have we three come to this, We three who now are dead. Unwillingly They loved, unwillingly I slew them. Now I kiss them on the forehead quietly. 
