So that ended the matter; and this little explosion having cleared the air, we all settled down to our old amicable relationship.
At Norfolk Island a court of criminal jurisdiction departed still further from the precedents of civil justice.
She fighteth with him ay, and stryveth, That his herte asondre ryveth; Such gredinesse him assaylith, That whan he most hath, most he faylith.
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He also enables us to add to our list the Complaint of Anelida and the Complaint of Mars; for it is the latter poem which contains the story of the broche of Thebes.
The Hounds ran swiftly thro' the Woods The nimble Deer to take, And with their Cries the Hills and Dales An Eccho shrill did make.
If this could be excusable in any Writer, it would be in Ovid, where he introduces the Eccho as a Nymph, before she was worn away into nothing but a Voice.
I find likewise in ancient Times the Conceit of making an Eccho talk sensibly, and give rational Answers.
There is such an Eccho among the old Ruins and Vaults, that if you stamp but a little louder than ordinary, you hear the Sound repeated.
Thou art a Foole, if Eccho were as fleete, I would esteeme him worth a dozen such: But sup them well, and looke vnto them all, To morrow I intend to hunt againe Hunts.
It giues a verie ecchoto the seate Where loue is thron'd Du.
We will faire Queene, vp to the Mountains top, And marke the musicall confusion Of hounds and eccho in coniunction Hip.
Sidenote: Epanalepsis, or the Eccho sound, otherwise, the slow return.
Vnlesse I called him the eccho sound, I could not tell what name to giue him, vnlesse it were the slow returne.
Let not thy grones force Eccho from her cave, Or interrupt her weeping o're that wave, Which last Narcissus kist: let no darke grove Be taught to whisper stories of thy love.
Let not thy grones force Eccho from her cave, 82 88.
Ring ye the bels to make it weare away, And bonefiers make all day; 275 And daunce about them, and about them sing, That all the woods may answer, and your eccho ring.
In stead of them, fowle goblins and shriek-owles With fearfull howling do all places fill, And feeble eccho now laments and howles, 285 The dreadfull accents of their outcries shrill.
Had ye once seene these her celestial threasures, 200 And unrevealed pleasures, Then would ye wonder, and her prayses sing, That all the woods should answer, and your eccho ring.
Let none of these theyr drery accents sing; Ne let the woods them answer, nor theyr eccho ring.
Which done, doe at her chamber dore awayt, For she will waken strayt; The whiles doe ye this song unto her sing, The woods shall to you answer, and your Eccho ring.
And with that word sche was forschape, Ther may no vois hire mouth ascape, What man that in the wodes crieth, Withoute faile Eccho replieth, And what word that him list to sein, The same word sche seith ayein.
Then I thy soverayne prayses loud wil sing, That all the woods shal answer, and theyreccho ring.
So I unto my selfe alone will sing; The woods shall to me answer, and my Eccho ring.
And let the mayds and yong men cease to sing; Ne let the woods them answer nor theyr eccho ring.
Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring?
So let us rest, sweet love, in hope of this, And cease till then our tymely joyes to sing: The woods no more us answer, nor our eccho ring!
Til which we cease your further prayse to sing; Ne any woods shall answer, nor your Eccho ring.
All night therefore attend your merry play, For it will soone be day: Now none doth hinder you, that say or sing; Ne will the woods now answer, nor your Eccho ring.
So ended she; and all the rest around To her redoubled that her undersong, Which said their brydale daye should not be long: And gentle Eccho from the neighbour ground Their accents did resound.
Nor they of joy and pleasance to you sing, That all the woods them answer, and theyr eccho ring.
The Lowings of my Herds, and the Bleatings of my Flocks, make a pleasant Eccho in thy Mountains, and sound sweetly in thy Ears.
And afterwards, Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence, The Sound must seem anEccho to the Sense.
I turn'd the little Nymph to view, She singing and did smiling shew; Eudora led a heavenly strain, Her Angels Voice did eccho it again!
The hounds ran swiftly thro' the woods, The nimble deer to take, And with their cries the hills and dales An eccho shrill did make.
And as Ayre doth fullfill the hollownes Of rotten walls; so it myne emptines, 10 Where tost and mov'd it did beget this sound Which as a lame Eccho of thyne doth rebound.
For when the Doves eccho each others cry That sound doth hither fly.
The Groves rejoyce with th’Eccho they afford And tell them backe--ev’n word for word.
Faint stamm'ring Eccho you so draw, that we The very repercussion do see.
Tis true; but lett your wisdomes tell me than, How'de you know Eccho from another man?
Tis true; but lett your wisdomes tell me than [460] How'de you know Eccho from another man?
Knowe, if you aske, that Eccho is my name, That cannott speake a woord, nor halfe a sillable, Vnles you speake before so intelligible.
And Eccho oft doth tell Wondrous things from her Cell, 210 As her what chance befell, Learning to prattle.
When soone the Ecchodoth reply, To my last word, goe on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eccho" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
