...Thackeray, in his " Four Georges," seizes upon the parallel in a passage of exquisitely solemn feeling : " Low he lies to whom the proudest used to kneel once,...lips and cries ' Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little ! ' Vex not his ghost : oh ! let him pass ! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world...

...let us take a mournful hand together as we stand by this royal corpse, and call a truce to battle ! Low he lies to whom the proudest used to kneel once,...lips and cries, ' Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little ! ' ( Vex not his ghost — oh ! let him pass — he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough...

...this royal corpse, and call a truce to battle ! Low he lies to whom the proudest once used to kneel, and who was cast lower than the poorest; dead, whom...lips, and cries, ' Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little ! ' ' Vex not his ghost — oh ! let him pass — he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough...

...let us take a mournful hand together as we stand by this royal corpse, and call a truce to battle I Low he lies to whom the proudest used to kneel once,...lips and cries, ' Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little!' ' Vex not his ghost — oh ! let him pass — he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world...

...account of the third George, ending with the famous description of the last days of the old King: «Lew he lies to whom the proudest used to kneel once, and...lips and cries, «Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little ! > » These essays do not profess to be history in any sense — certainly not in that in which Macaulay...

...let us take a mournful hand together as we stand by this royal corpse, and call a truce to battle! Low he lies to whom the proudest used to kneel once,...lips and cries, 'Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little!' Hush! Strife and Quarrel, over the solemn grave! Sound, Trumpets, a mournful march. Fall, Dark Curtain,...

...sympathetic account of the third George, ending with the famous description of the last days of the old King: «Low he lies to whom the proudest used to kneel once,...lips and cries, ' Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little ! ' » These essays do not profess to be history in any sense — certainly not in that in which Macaulay...

...mournful hand together as we stand by this royal corpse and call a truce to battle! Low [transposition] he lies, to whom the proudest used to kneel once,...breathless lips, and cries, " Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a liltle !" Vex not his ghost, —oh ! let him pass, — he hates him That would upon the rack of this...

...Peninsular War.' And Thackeray employs it, with great effect, in his lecture on George in. : — ' Low he lies, to whom the proudest used to kneel once,...hangs over her breathless lips, and cries " Cordelia, stay a little." ' CAUTION. — Care must be taken that the use of this device does not become an affectation....

...stand by this royal corpse and call a truce to battle. Low he lies to whom the proudest used to kneel, and who was cast lower than the poorest ; dead, whom...buffeted by rude hands, with his children in revolt — our 'Lear'! Hush! strife and quarrel, over his solemn grave ! Sound, trumpets, a mournful march....