 | John Bell - English poetry - 1799 - 402 pages
...both me and thee, f three. T' invent and practise this one way t' annihilate all THE FUNERAL. \VHOEVER comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much...touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that which unto heav'n being gone, Will leave this to controul, * And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...neglect both me and thee, T invent and practise this one way, t' annihilate all three. THE FUNERAL. WHOEVER comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question...; The mystery, the sign, you must not touch, .For t is my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which unto Hrav'n being gone, Will leave this to control, And... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...of his wearing his late wife's hair about his arm, in a little poem which is called the Funeral : " Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question...mine arm ; The mystery, the sign you must not touch." The scholastic reason he gives quite dissolves the charm of tender and touching grace in the sentiment... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 614 pages
...lints on the poet's wearing his lute wife's hair about his arm, in a little poem called the Funeral. " Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question...about mine arm, The mystery, the sign you must not touiij." Donne should have closed the potni here, and not have marred the mystery himself, by the meddling... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1823 - 402 pages
...dead, — going, and bidding go !" altogether an admirable and most interesting example of his style. " Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm, Nor question much, That subtle wreath of hair which crowns my arm ; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul ; • Viceroy... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...tell as he has done. The piece is altogether an admirable and most interesting example of his style. " Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm, Nor question much, That subtle wreath of hair which crowns my arm ; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul ; Viceroy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...about his arm, in a little poem which is called the Funeral : " Whoever comes to shroud me, do not bum Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, about...mine arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch." The scholastic reason he gives quite dissolves the charm of tender and touching grace in the sentiment... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...noticr* UM cirrumitanrr of bit kk lair wife's hair about hb arm, in a little poem which it call«J " Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question...mine arm ; The mystery, the sign you must not touch." The scholastic reason he gives quite dissolves the charm of tender and touching grace in the sentiment... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama (Comedy) - 1876 - 474 pages
...his wearing his late wife's hair about his arm, in a little poem which is called the ' Funeral ' : " Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question...mine arm ; The mystery, the sign you must not touch." The scholastic reason he gives quite dissolves the charm of tender and touching grace in the sentiment... | |
 | John Skelton - 1879 - 932 pages
...neglect both me and thee, To invent and practice this one way to annihilate all three. THE FUNERAL. (/ WHOEVER comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair which crowns mine arm; For 't is my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which unto heaven being gone, Will... | |
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tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution. 
