 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...victory ? 0 Death ! where is thy sting ? ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY.2 WHAT beckoning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps,...bosom gored, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword \ 1 This ode was written in imitation of the famous sonnet of Adrian to his departing soul. Flaxman... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...victory ? 0 Death ! where is thy sting ? ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OP AN UNFORTUNATE LADY.2 WHAT beckoning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps,...bosom gored, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? 1 This ode was written in imitation of the famous sonnet of Adrian to his departing soul. Flaxman... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...remains ;^ Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns I ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY. WHAT beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade, Invites...'Tis she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gored! Why aimly gleams the visionary sword? Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it in heaven a crime... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...shall close our remarks upon this interesting author : — ELEGY ON AN UNFORTUNATE LADY. What bcck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade, Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade 7 'Tis she !— but why that bleeding bosom gored t Why dimly gleams the visionary gword ? 0 ever beauteous,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...I a Name. Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting (ed. 2), 1716 59 Elegy to the ^Memory of an Unfortunate Lady WHAT beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites...glade? 'Tis she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heav'n,... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - 342 pages
...woman whom he addresses so fervently: What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my step, and points to yonder glade? 'Tis she! - but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword? (line 1; TE, II, 362) " Windsor Foresi, lines 184, 195... | |
 | Edward Gunn - 1991 - 376 pages
...Apoplanesis). beckoning ghost along the moonlight glade / Invites my steps, and points to yonder shade? / Tis she; but why that bleeding bosom gored, / Why dimly gleams the visionary sword?" (Alexander Pope, "Elegy to an Unfortunate Young Lady"). Leptologia: Subtle reasoning, often to the... | |
 | Robert J. Griffin - 1995 - 208 pages
...Unfortunate Lady read as follows: What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my step, and points to yonder glade? 'Tis she! - but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword?1 ' The ghost appears with sword and bleeding bosom, we... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...beckoning ghost, along the moonlight shade 1 Invites my step, and points to yonder glade? 'Tis she!—but why that bleeding bosom gored, Why dimly gleams the...visionary sword? Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a... | |
 | Alan Lee Berman, Morton M. Silverman, Bruce Michael Bongar - 2000 - 682 pages
...Unfortunate Lady (published 1717), identity of the person — if she was real — unknown: What beckoning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glader Tis she!- — but why that bleedmg bosom gored, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword? Oh ever... | |
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Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a Lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die... 
