 Beneath the lamp the lady bowed, And slowly rolled her eyes around; Then drawing in her breath aloud, Like one that shuddered, she unbound The cincture from beneath her breast: Her silken robe, and inner vest, Dropt to her feet, and full in view, Behold!...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pagina 5611834Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edward Arber - 1901 - 362 pagina’s
...shuddered, she unbound The cincture from beneath her breast. Her silken robe, and inner vest, Dropped to her feet; and, full in view, Behold, her bosom...half her side— A sight to dream of, not to tell! And she is to sleep by CHRISTABEL ! She took two paces, and a stride, And lay down by the Maiden's... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1901 - 524 pagina’s
...shuddered, she unbound The cincture from beneath her breast. Her silken robe, and inner vest, Dropped to her feet ; and, full in view, Behold, her bosom...half her side — A sight to dream of, not to tell! And she is to sleep by CHRISTABEL ! She took two paces, and a stride, And lay down by the Maiden's... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1904 - 454 pagina’s
...devotee, — where she sees something which the poet does not think lit to tell us very explicitly. *' Her silken robe, and inner vest, Dropt to her feet,...and half her side A sight to dream of, not to tell ! And she is to sleep by Christabel." ' She soon rises, however, from her knees ; and as it was not... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1902 - 162 pagina’s
...shuddered, she unbound The cincture from beneath her breast : Her silken robe, and inner vest, 250 Dropt to her feet, and full in view, Behold !° her...and half her side A sight to dream of, not to tell ! 0 shield her ! shield sweet Christabel ! Yet Geraldine nor speaks nor stirs ; 355 Ah ! what a stricken... | |
 | James B. Twitchell - 1981 - 236 pagina’s
...shows Christabel her fetid and decaying bosom, the narrator, a kind of displaced Coleridge, blurts out: "Behold! her bosom and half her side — /A sight to dream of, not to tell!/O shield her! shield sweet Christabel!" (italics mine, ll. 252-54). Knowing how Coleridge felt... | |
 | Laurence A. Rickels - 1988 - 388 pagina’s
...Christabel lies waiting, she observes Geraldine undress: she unbound The cincture from beneath her breast: Her silken robe, and inner vest, Dropt to her feet,...not to tell! O shield her! shield sweet Christabel! (248-54) The expurgated line (between 252 and 253) explicitly depicts Geraldine as a horrible creature,... | |
 | L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 pagina’s
...[147-49]); or he becomes so caught up in his story that he begins trying to participate in the action ("Behold! her bosom and half her side — / A sight...to tell! / O shield her! shield sweet Christabel!" [252-54]). Keats adopts a similar, though somewhat less buffoon-like distancing strategy in Lamia:... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud — and hark, again! loud as before. (1. 1—3) 4 s together, Love loveth best of all the year October's bright blue we (1. 252-253) 14 Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, Still flutters there, the sole unquiet... | |
 | Allan Lloyd Smith, Victor Sage - 1994 - 256 pagina’s
...History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day (London. 1980). pp. 340-45. Geraldine disrobes: Her silken robe, and inner vest, Dropt to her feet,...not to tell! O shield her! shield sweet Christabel! Yet Geraldine nor speaks nor stirs; Ah! what a stricken look was hers! (pp. 250-56) This is an immensely... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pagina’s
...in her breath aloud Like one that shuddered, she unbound The cincture from beneath her breast: 250 Her silken robe, and inner vest, Dropt to her feet,...not to tell! O shield her! shield sweet Christabel! 255 Yet Geraldine nor speaks nor stirs; Ah! what a stricken look was hers! Deep from within she seems... | |
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