 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. Copious notes by Malone - Stran 24avtor: James Boswell - 1821Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1850 - 772 strani
...mightier, until this world was too low, too narrow a sphere of action, and " Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed hi* sool the nearest way." Mr. Calhoun was not a learned man, in the ordinary acceptation of the term,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 strani
...No petty gains disdain'd by pride : The modest wants of every day The toil of every day supply'd. " His virtues walk'd their narrow round, Nor made a...vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way." LETTKR 4O7. TO MRS. STRAHAN. " Feb. 4. 1782. " DEAR MADAM, — Mrs. Williams showed me your kind letter.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 strani
...made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the eternal Master found His single talent3 well employ 'd. " The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted,...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way 4." " TO MRS. STRAHAN. " 4th February, 1762. " DEAR MADAM, — Mrs. Williams showed me your kind letter.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 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. PROM THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. " ENLARGE my life with multitude of days !" In health, in sickness,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 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. PROM THE VANITY OP HUMAN WISHES. " ENLARGE my life with multitude of days !" In health, in sickness,... | |
 | 1840 - 378 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. THK VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, IN IMITATION OF THI TENTH SATIRE Of JUVENAL. LET observation, with extensive... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 strani
...firm — his powers were bright, Tho' 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. GRAY. Born in 1716— Died in 1771. Mr. Gray was accounted in his time, according to Dr. Johnson, the... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 strani
...his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold г~ "'1л**""а nf л*.*«.. re now so numerous and promising that he deemed them infallible. For som WILLIAM COLLINS. None of our poets have lived more under the ' skiey influences' of imagination than... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 strani
...Nor made a pause nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found, His single talent well employed. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted,...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... | |
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