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...a swelling passion;" and illustrates with the following passage from " The Mourning Bride:" '' Let me not stir, nor breathe, lest I dissolve That tender,...and grasp her shade. 'Tis life! 'tis warm! 'tis she herself ! It is Almeria, 'tis, it is my wife!" 3. As formal climax is more artificial than most of...

...beautiful : — ' Rivet and nail me where I stand, ye Powers, That motionless I may be still deceiv'd. Let me not stir, nor breathe, lest I dissolve That tender lovely form of painted air, So like Almeria.' 'But the reader in these passages is. reminded of Shakespeare ! ' Need Congreve shrink from the competition...

...beautiful:— ' Rivet and nail me where I stand, ye Powers, That motionless I may be still deceiv'd. Let me not stir, nor breathe, lest I dissolve That tender lovely form of painted air, So like Almeria.' ' But the reader in these passages is . reminded of Shakespeare ! ' Need Congreve shrink from the competition...

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...and nail me where I stand, ye powers; [Coming forward. That motionless I may be still deceived. Let me not stir, nor breathe, lest I dissolve That tender,...falls; I'll catch it ere it goes, and grasp her shade. Tislife! 'tis warm! 'tis she! 'tis she herself! Nor dead nor shade, but breathing and alive! It is...

...and nail me where I stand, ye powers; [Coming forward. That motionless I may be still deceived. Let me not stir, nor breathe, lest I dissolve That tender, lovely form of painted air, 30 like Almeria. Ha! it sinks, it falls; I'll catch it ere it goes, and grasp her shade. Tis life!...