 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, And freed his soul the nearest way.' In one of Johnson's registers of this year, there occurs the following curious...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - Stran 391avtor: James Boswell - 1904Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 strani
...peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now Ms eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbs of fiery...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. XII. OLD POETS. ROBERT HEKRICK—GEORGE WITHERS. NOTHING seems stranger in the critics of the last... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 strani
...firm—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... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1859 - 60 strani
...respect, as much affection, as could well accompany any human career. " Then, with.no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way." It is not for me, gentlemen, to attempt any delineation of his character, or any description of his... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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. (Sloittr. A LONDON merchant, who published some elaborate poems In blank verse, which are now little... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 756 strani
...respect, as much affection, as could well accompany any human career. " Then, with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way." It is not for me, gentlemen, to attempt any delineation of his character, or any description of his... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 748 strani
...respect, as much affection, as could well accompany any human career. " Then, with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way." It is not for ine, gentlemen, to attempt any delineation of his character, or any description of his... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 strani
...he fell in a cause " sacred to liberty and the rights of mankind." " Worn by no wasting, lingering pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way." /. A. Andreo. CCLXXVII. HONOR TO OUR HEROES. PT^HE heart swells with unwonted emotion when we remember... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 strani
...farm, 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 once the vital chain, 3; And freed his soul the nearest way. Samuel Johnson. CLXV HIGHLAND MARY. Ye banks and braes and streams... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 strani
...firm, his powers wore bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. 'I'hen with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. TMIi KITE; OK, PRIDE MUST IIAVIC A KAI.I,. JOHN NEWTON.—1725-1807. [THE " Olney Hymns " establish... | |
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