 | Parke Godwin - 1883 - 466 strani
...life is often preceded by a train of infirmities. Do you remember what Milton says ? " ' — for the air of youth Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will...reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.' And Dr. Johnson — "Unnumbered maladies the joints... | |
 | 1883 - 410 strani
...gray, — thy senses then, Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forgo To what thou hast ; and, for the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will...reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry, To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life." To whom our Ancestor: — "Henceforth I fly not death,... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1883 - 554 strani
...His description of old age is somewhat less sorrowful and much less repulsive. It closes with, — In thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry. Nobody could understand this who had not read the strange notions of physicians, which continued down... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 454 strani
...the lines which follow soon after these do not describe the old age of Halleck : " — and for the air of youth Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will...reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down," since he retained to the last the vivacious faculties and quick emotions of his earlier... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 630 strani
...and gray : thy senses then Obtuse all taste of pleasure must forego To what thou hast, and for the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will...reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life. To whom our ancestor : Henceforth I fly not death,... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 634 strani
...and gray : thy senses then Obtuse all taste of pleasure must forego To what thon hast, and for the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will...reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life. To whom our ancestor : Henceforth I fly not death,... | |
 | John Milton - 1887 - 180 strani
...Recovering.' (Cf. 1.264 :— ' Heart struck with chilling gripe of sorrow stood.') xi. 542:— ' For the air of youth Hopeful and cheerful in thy blood will...reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down.' Areopagitica, 'This was it which had dampt the glory of Italian wits.' The original... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1889 - 460 strani
...the lines which follow soon after these do not describe the old age of Halleck : " — and for the air of youth Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will...reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down," since he retained to the last the vivacious faculties and quick emotions of his earlier... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 406 strani
...gray ; thy senses then Obtuse all taste of pleasure must forgo 541 To what thou hast ; and, for the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will...reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry, To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life." To whom our ancestor : " Henceforth I fly not death,... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 198 strani
...grey; thy senses then, 540 Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forgo To what thou hast; and, for the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will...reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry, To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life." To whom our Ancestor : " Henceforth I fly not death,... | |
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To what thou hast, and for the air of youth Hopeful and cheerful in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry, To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life. 
