 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,...  Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of Atour to the ... - Página 139por James Boswell - 1887Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 páginas
...uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now liis eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 páginas
...— 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 - 276 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 316 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 320 páginas
...firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of f1ery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...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... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1859 - 64 páginas
...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... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1859 - 60 páginas
...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... | |
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