 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
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 strani
...the Eternal Master found, His single talent well employed. The busy day, the peaceful night, TTnfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 strani
...peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now liis eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbs of fiery...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 strani
...pause nor left a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found, His single talent well employed. The tusy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 396 strani
...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 HEBBICK — GEORGE WITHERS. NOTHING seems stranger in the critics of the last... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 316 strani
...made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found His single talent well employ" d. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted,...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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