 | Margaret Roberts - 1884 - 344 pages
...dwelling was forfeited by the shelter which its roof was giving to the Papist stranger. CHAPTER III. " I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay ; I see a hand you cannot see, \Vhich beckons me away." — TICKELL. FARMER'S household is early astir, but young Martin was up and... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - Bible - 1884 - 514 pages
...What voices were they, angelic or prophetic ? If we asked the Poet when he says, — I hear a voice yc cannot hear which says I must not stay, I see a hand ye cannot see which beckons me away, what hand and whose voice it is that he refers to ? his answer... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1884 - 346 pages
...agree in gender, number, and person, with the nouns which they represent: I hear a voice you can not hear, Which says I must not stay; I see a hand you can not see, Which beckons me away.—Tickell. Ye stones, in which my gore will not sink, but Reek... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 pages
...love ; but the secret of my friend is not mine. — Sir P. SYDNEY. CS b. I hear a voice you can not hear, Which says I must not stay ; I see a hand you can not see, Which beckons me away. — TICKEL. CS Note V. — a. In that battle he acted cowardly,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1885 - 670 pages
...immediately; they occupy the same grave. Do not these lines sound like an echo from our nurseries ? — I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay ; . I sec a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away. 27. The unhappy histoiy of Bichard Savage has been... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1886 - 1030 pages
...• Note D. The Baahr-Geut. CHAPTER FIFTEENTH. I see a hand you cannot Me, Which beckons me away : I hear a voice you cannot hear. Which says I must not stay. MALUT. WHEN Eveline first opened her eyes, it seemed to be without any recollection of what had passed... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1887 - 456 pages
...at her window, shrieking thrice, The raven flap'd his wing. Too well the love-lorn maiden knew That solemn boding sound ; And thus, in dying words, bespoke...voice you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay: T see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away. "Ah, Colin l give her not thy vows ; Vows due to... | |
 | 1888 - 680 pages
...busy in the low underwood. Hush ! what's that ? a whimper ! Was it already in the vulpine mind to ' ' Hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay ; To see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away. " The Rake was standing straight up, evidently... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Antislavery movements - 1891 - 502 pages
...watches of the Italian night, he comforted the sickening hopes of those about him by whispering, — " I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says I must not stay ; I see a Imnd you cannot see, Which beckons me away." But where shall we stop ? This empty desk ! You may fill... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1893 - 628 pages
...maiden knew The solemn boding sound; 10 And thus, in dying words, bespoke The virgins weeping round. 25 "I hear a voice, you cannot hear, "Which says, I must not stay: "I see a hand, you cannot see, is "Which beckons me away. "By a false heart, and broken vows, 30 "In early youth I die. "Am I to blame,... | |
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Ye perjur'd swains, beware. Three times, all in the dead of night, A bell was heard to ring; And shrieking at her window thrice, The raven flap'd his wing. 
