ecstasie

Updated: May 10, 2025

Poet, novelist, and critic, b. at Dublin, and ed. at Trinity Coll. there, he early decided to follow a literary career, and went to London, where he brought out his first poem, Errors of Ecstasie . He also wrote for the London Magazine, under the pseudonym of John Lacy. In it appeared his best story, Lilian of the Vale.

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

"As 'twixt two equal armies Fate Suspends uncertain victory, Our souls which to advance our state Were gone out hung 'twixt her and me: "And whilst our souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral statues lay; All day the same our postures were, And we said nothing, all the day." DONNE, The Ecstasie. She rose from the stone, but swayed a little, finding her feet.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Sir John Constantine : Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756