The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain,... The life of Samuel Johnson - Stran 795avtor: James Boswell - 1817Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| 1859 - 868 strani
...respect and affection as could well accompany any human career, — " Then, with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed liis soul the nearest way." It is not for me, gentlemen, to attempt any delineation of his character,... | |
| James Boswell - 1851 - 322 strani
...frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs cf fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke...ministry is dissolved. I prayed with Francis, and gave thanks."1 It has been the subject of discussion, whether there are two distinct particulars mentioned... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 strani
...uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. XII. * OLD POETS. ROBERT HERRICK GEORGE WITHER. NOTHING seems stranger in the critics of the last century... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 strani
...uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now liis eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. i. 3 XII. OLD POETS. EGBERT HERBICK — GEORGE WITHERS. NOTHING seems stranger in the critics of the... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 strani
...firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Extracts from the Vanity of human Wishes. "Enlarge my life with multitude of days!" In health, in sickness,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 strani
...firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbs of flery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. XII. OLD POETS. ROBERT HERRICK — GEORGE WITHER. NOTHING seems stranger in the critics of the last... | |
| 1854 - 590 strani
...God who gave it — so sudden and unanticipated in this instance was the coming of the Son of man. " Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations...vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way." The immediate cause of death is supposed to have been disease of the heart. On the following Friday... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 strani
...his powers were bright, ' Though now his eightieth year was nigh. \ 9 Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. EPITAPH ON CLAUDE PHILLIPS,1 AN ITINERANT MUSICIAN. PHILLIPS ! whose touch harmonious could remove... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 strani
...— his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. 9 Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. EPITAPH ON CLAUDE PHILLIPS,1 AN ITINERANT MUSICIAN. PHILLIPS ! whose touch harmonious could remove... | |
| James Boswell - 1859 - 316 strani
...uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold...chain, And freed his soul the nearest way." In one ot Johnson's registers of this year, there occurs the following curious passage : " Jan. 20. The ministry... | |
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