 But, as he lay in the morning light, his face for a moment Seemed to assume once more the forms of its earlier manhood; So are wont to be changed the faces of those who are dying. Hot and red on his lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life,...  Evangeline : a Tale of Acadie - Page 118by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 122 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1848 - 722 pages
...Gabriel among the sick in the hospital : — " Hot and red on his lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had...Angel of Death might see the sign and pass over." This is a temperance in passion, not acquired or begotten, but innate and "from the purpose." One would... | |
 | 1848 - 734 pages
...Gabriel among the sick in the hospital : — " Hot and red on his lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled its portals, Tliat the Angel of Death might see the sign and pass over." This is a temperance in passion, not acquired... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...be changed the faces of those who are dying. Hot and red on his lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had...spirit exhausted Seemed to be sinking down through in6nite depths in the darkness, Darkness of slumber and death, for ever sinking and sinking. Then through... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1850 - 560 pages
...Gabriel and Evangeline is half ruined, thus : — " Hot and red on his lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had...Angel of Death might see the sign and pass over." We could laugh at all these conceits, if they did not contain glimmerings of a fine fancy run mad,... | |
 | 1855 - 724 pages
...bo chanced the faces of those who are dying. Hot and red on hi* lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had...dying he lay, and his spirit exhausted Seemed to be slaking down through Infinite depths in the darkness, Darkness of clumber and death, for ever sinking... | |
 | 1852 - 528 pages
...be changed the faces of those \vho are dying. Hot and red on his lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had...dying, he lay, and his spirit exhausted Seemed to he sinking down through infinite depths in the darkness — • Darkness of slumber and death — for... | |
 | 1852 - 620 pages
...lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had besprinkled the portals, That the angel of death might see the sign, and pass over." This, if it can be called an illustration at all, is an illustration " by contraries," seing that,... | |
 | 1853 - 538 pages
...humming-birds, that flitted from blossom to blossom. Hot and red on his lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had...Angel of Death might see the sign, and pass over.§§ This penchant for Scripture similitudes would have made the poet dear, two centuries ago, to the lovers... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 516 pages
...humming-birds, that flitted from blossom to blossom. Hot and red on his lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had...Angel of Death might see the sign, and pass over.§§ This penchant for Scripture similitudes would have made the poet dear, two centuries ago, to the lovers... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...be changed the faces of those who are dying. Hot and red on his lips still burned the flush of the fever, As if life, like the Hebrew, with blood had...its portals, That the Angel of Death might see the ML']], and pass over. Motionless, senseless, dying, he lay, and his spirit ezhausted Seemed to be sinking... | |
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