self-mov'd

Updated: May 14, 2025

Now charnels rattle, scattered limbs, and all The various bones, obsequious to the call, Self-mov'd, advance the neck perhaps to meet The distant head, the distant legs the feet, but rejected it as not wholly supported by the testimony of Scripture. I think that the rhetoric and vigorous advance of Young's verse were pleasant to me. Beilby Porteus I discarded from the first as impenetrable.

Edmund Gosse - Father and Son: a study of two temperaments