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" HESTER When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead,. Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed, And her together. A springy... "
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Poems and plays - Page 30
by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903
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The Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1818 - 320 pages
...dear Coleridge, Your's, With unabated esteem, C. LAMB. POEMS. - ********* ******** SS f POEMS. HESTER. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may...step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, I know not by what name beside I shall it call : — if 'twas not pride, It was a joy to that allied,...
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The Etonian, Volume 1

1821 - 410 pages
...think, contain all the characteristics of which I have been speaking. HESTER. WIIKV maidens such :is Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though...thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath slie been dead. Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And oer together. A springy...
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The History of Christ's Hospital: From Its Foundation by King Edward the ...

John Iliff Wilson - London (England) - 1821 - 348 pages
...sect. She was of a nature so sprightly and strong, that the poet, for some time, says he could not By force be led To think upon the wormy bed And her together. My sprightly neighbour, gone before To that unknown and silent shore, Shall we not meet, as heretofore,...
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The Etonian, Volume 1

1821 - 420 pages
...characteristics of which I have been speaking. WHEW maidens such a> Hester die, Their place ye mny not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. HESTER. Her parents held the Quaker rule, Which doth the human feeling cool, But she was train'd in...
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The Etonian, Volume 2

Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 340 pages
...feeling, and which, I think, contain all the characteristics of which I have been speaking. HESTER. When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Th ough ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot...
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Rural Repository, Volumes 26-27

1850 - 428 pages
...may not well supply, Though \e (inning a thousand try. With vain endeavour. A month or more hath *he been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon...And her together* A springy motion in her gait, A ri>ing t>tep, diil indicate Of pride and joy no common rale, Tim! ilu-hV her spirit. I know not by...
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The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White ...

Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...unbeautified, Disorder'd, marr'd, where such strange tbiegt acted. Dorms. HESTER, WHEN maidens euch as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply,...Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A springy motion in her gait, A rising мер, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate. That flusb'd...
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The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White

Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...mystery of God) unbeautified, Disorder'd, marr'd, where such strange things are acted. JtttoccUanrouis WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may...supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavor. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 44

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1858 - 672 pages
...of death," &c. Chronicles of Clocernook. What kinship hath mid Summer with the grave? The Recluse. —Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And lier together. C. LAMB: Hester. Br common consent the image of death is connected with what is chill,...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and ..., Volume 1

Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 pages
...•. •. •. <133 The Wife's Trial; or, the Intruding Widow . •. •. •. •. 435 POEMS. HESTER. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may...I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And iier together. A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common...
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