 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
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 strani
...firm, his powers were bright, Though nowhiseightiethyearwas nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, Xo cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. WILLIAM 8HEN8TONE. [1714-1763.l THE sCHOOLMISTRESS. HER cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 strani
...frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throb of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Samuel Johnson. WOOD STREET. AT the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that... | |
 | William Stevens Robinson - 1877 - 626 strani
...Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote it in 1782. The lines are as follows : — " Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul tho nearest way." JUDGE CHARLES ALLEN IN 186T. In genuine legal and intellectual strength, there was... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 strani
...each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer — man a flower — He dies, alas! how soon he dies! Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations...the vital chain. And freed his soul the nearest way. DR. S. JOHNSON : on Robert Levctt. This world death's region is, the other life's; And here it should... | |
 | Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 strani
...because he so totally dedicated himself to alleviating the bodily pains of others: Then with no throbbing fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke...vital chain, And free'd his soul the nearest way. [Poems 235.33-36] A life spent watching the poor and the obscure die has prepared Levet for acceptance... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 strani
...the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed. (1. 25-28) 4 Then with no fiery throbbing ) 53 The ri . (1. 33-36) EBEV; HelP; InPS; NAEL-1: NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEV; PoE; PoEL-3; PPP; SCV; TEP 241... | |
 | Wayne J. Urban - 2000 - 1372 strani
...frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbbing fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Like Alexander Pope (1688-1744), who had spoken of "This long disease, my life', Johnson reworks the... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 422 strani
...frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbbing fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And forced his soul the nearest way. MATTHEW 25:30-33 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness:... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1994 - 524 strani
...remarks on that occasion, is appropriate to the present case : " Then with no fiery, throbbing paio, No cold gradations of decay ; Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his aoul the nearest way." Mr. Deblois was tall in person, remarkably well developed, and of commanding... | |
 | Blanford Parker - 1998 - 282 strani
...saving moment of The Vanity of Human Wishes, but with even more pointed emotion: Then with no throbbing fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. ("On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet," 33-36) This is the extraordinary moment, when the soul, released... | |
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