| 1853 - 1142 pages
...by misery and by guilt. When life can but perpetuate bitter memories, the wretched rush from it, " Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurled, Any where, any where, Cut of the world." * And not alone the desolate and broken hearted. But those... | |
| 474 pages
...bleak winds of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river ; Mad from life's history — Glad to death's mystery...hurled — Anywhere — anywhere Out of the world!" Is not that brief expression " anywhere, anywhere, out of the world," the consummation of human despair... | |
| 742 pages
...bleak winds of March Hade her tremble and shiver ; But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river. Mad from Life's history, Glad to Death's mystery Swift to be hurled, Auywhere ! anywhere out of the world!" I got up from my seat, I walked slowly but unwaveringly towards... | |
| 1845 - 656 pages
...hurrying God knows whither — perhaps to her garrethome— perhaps, wanting that, to the River — '' Mad from life's history* Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Any where — any where Out of the world I " As the thought crossed my mind, I turned shuddering,... | |
| Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver ; But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river: Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery,...be hurled, — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, — No matter how coldly The rough river ran,— Over the brink of it : Picture... | |
| 1846 - 508 pages
...witnesses of those fearful struggles with passion and strong despair which end in that wild resolve — ' Mad from Life's history, Glad to Death's mystery Swift to be hurled, A ny where — anywhere — Out of the world.' " ~4 And there it is, the ruined monument of that awful... | |
| Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1847 - 366 pages
...power is so unapproachable, that we have ventured to quote it here. It was even thus with Janet, — Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift...to be hurled, Anywhere, anywhere, Out of the world ! CHAPTER XVIII. THE first suspicion entertained of the fate of poor Janet, the isolated, the desolate,... | |
| 1847 - 486 pages
...March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river ; VOL. xu. 41 Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery,...be hurled, Anywhere, anywhere, Out of the world." tt • * t " One of Eve's familyWipe those poor lips of hers, Ooziug so clammily." * * His humorous... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1847 - 606 pages
...bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Nor the black flowing river; Mad from life's history — Glad to death's mystery...to be hurled, Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world !" After all this, we have not the heart, as Lord Jeffrey would say, to turn to his " Whims and Oddities,"... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 884 pages
...tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Nor the black flowing river; Mad from life's history — <!lad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled, Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world!" After all this, we have not tho heart, as Lord Jeffrey would sav, to turn to his " Whims and oddities,... | |
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