 Dying in state and by such slow degrees, I fold my arms as if they clasped a crook, And stretch my feet forth straight as stone can point, And let the bedclothes, for a mortcloth...  Victorian Poets - Page 325by Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 521 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1845 - 656 pages
...carve my epitaph aright, Choice Latin, picked phrase, Tully's every word, No gaudy ware like Gandolf s second line — Tully, my masters ? Ulpian serves...the steady candle-flame, and taste Good strong thick stupifying incense-smoke ! For as I lie here, hours of the dead night, Dying in state and by such slow... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...if ye carve my epitaph aright, Choice Latin, picked phrase, Tully's every word, No gaudy ware like Gandolf's second line — Tully, my masters ? Ulpian...and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke ! For as I lie here, hours of the dead night, Dying in state and hy such slow degrees, I fold my arms... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...if ye carve my epitaph aright, Choice Latin, picked phrase, Tully's every word, No gaudy ware like Gandolf's second line — Tully, my masters ? Ulpian...and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke ! For as I lie here, hours of the dead night, Dying in state and by such slow degrees, I fold my arms... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1863 - 432 pages
...Choice Latin, picked phrase, Tully's every word, No gaudy ware like Gandolf's second line — Tally, my masters ? Ulpian serves his need ! And then how...and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke ! The portraiture of selfish egotistic men was never taken in hand more successfully than by Robert... | |
 | 1863 - 584 pages
...worldly and selfish reasons, is necessarily of the same order of practical importance ; and none Tally, my masters ? Ulpian serves his need ! And then how...candle-flame, and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense- smoke !" The piece is full of passionate superstition, equally voluptuous and equally dramatic... | |
 | 1863 - 888 pages
...line — Tolly, my masters ? Ulpian serves his need ! And then how I shall lie through centuries, Aud hear the blessed mutter of the mass, And see God made...and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke ! The portraiture of selfish egotistic men was never taken ш hand more successfully than by Robert... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 436 pages
...carve my epitaph aright, Choice Latin, picked phrase, Tully's every word, No gaudy ware like Gandolf 's second line — Tully, my masters ? Ulpian serves...and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke ! For as I lie here, hours of the dead night, Dying in state and by such slow degrees, I fold my arms... | |
 | 308 pages
...the Tablet vi\\\ rejoice over her perversion. Then, like the bishop in Saint Praxed's, she can — " Hear the blessed mutter of the mass, And see God made...taste Good, strong, thick, stupefying incense-smoke ! " The enthusiasm with which the Ritualistic girl throws herself into all the details of a life in... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1872 - 310 pages
...carve my epitaph aright, Choice Latin, picked phrase. Tully's every word, No gaudy ware like Gandolf s second line — Tully, my masters'! Ulpian serves...the steady candle-flame, and taste Good strong thick stupifying incense-smoke! For as I lie here, hours of the dead night, Dying in state and by such slow... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...masters ? Ulpian serves his need ! And then how I shall lie through centuries, And hear the llessed mutter of the mass, And see God made and eaten all...and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke ! For as I lie here, hours of the dead night, Dying in state and by such slow degrees, I fold my arms... | |
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