 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...doves will peck in safeguard of their brood, SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VI, Part III, ii, 2 Worms, — The worms they crept in, and the worms they crept out, And sported his eyes and his temples about, While the spectre addressed Imogene, M, G, LEWIS, Alon2o the... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...head was exposed ! All present then uttered a terrified shout; All turn'd with disgust from the scene. The worms they crept in, and the worms they crept out, And sported his eyes and his temples about, \Vhile the spectre address'd Imogine: ' Behold me, thou false... | |
 | Literature - 1913 - 874 pages
...likeness to the mechanical horrors of Monk Lewis, who In his ballad of "Alonzo the Brave" tells us that The worms they crept In and the worms they crept out, And sported his eyelids and temples about. So Coleridge described Death in this stanza, afterwards suppressed—... | |
 | Allan Fea - England - 1914 - 338 pages
...as are poetically described in the ancient romance : Alonzo the Brave and the Fair I mo gene: — " The worms they crept in, and the worms they crept out, And sported his eyes and his temples about." Who can tell but that "Monk" Lewis got the inspiration of... | |
 | Alice M. Killen - Comparative literature - 1924 - 288 pages
...promis sa foi : Ail present then uttered a terrifie shout ; Ail turned with disgust from the scene. The worms they crept in and the worms they crept out, And sported his eyes and his temples about, While the spectre addressed Imogine. 1. C'est une poésie que... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...was exposed ! 696 All present then utter'da terrified shout; All turn'd with disgust from the scene. The worms they crept in, and the worms they crept out, And sported his eyes and his temples about, While the spectre address'd Imogine : ' Behold me, thou false... | |
 | John Livingston Lowes - Imagination - 1927 - 694 pages
...(see above, p. 277). It is to this soi-disant Wedding-Guest that Lewis applies the notorious lines: 'The worms they crept in, and the worms they crept out, And sported his eyes and his temples about." The suggested kinship with the Wedding-Guest need scarcely... | |
 | Eino Railo - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 434 pages
...Lewis's ballad in the scene where Alonzo's ghost appears at the wedding of his faithless betrothed : The worms they crept in, and the worms they crept out, And sported his eyes and his temples about.858 Soon two of Burger's ballads, Lenardo und Blandine and Lenore,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1920 - 388 pages
...chamber burnt blue ! All present then uttered a terrified shout; All turned with disgust from the scene. The worms they crept in, and the worms they crept out, And sported his eyes and his temples about, While the spectre addressed Imogene. p. 68, 1. 18. that man... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...head was exposed! All present then uttered a terrified shout: All turned with disgust from the scene. The worms they crept in, and the worms they crept out, And sported his eyes and his temples about, While the spectre addressed Imogine: Although marked with the... | |
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The worms they crept in, and the worms they crept out. And sported his eyes and his temples about. While the spectre addressed Imogine. "Behold me, thou false one! behold me! 
