 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, And...  The life of Samuel Johnson - Página 787por James Boswell - 1820Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 páginas
...firm, his powers were bright, Though nowhiseightiethyearwas nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, Xo cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. WILLIAM 8HEN8TONE. [1714-1763.l THE sCHOOLMISTRESS. HER cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 páginas
...firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throb of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Samuel Johnson. WOOD STREET. AT the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that... | |
 | William Stevens Robinson - 1877 - 626 páginas
...Samuel Johnson wrote it in 1782. The lines are as follows : — " Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul tho nearest way." JUDGE CHARLES ALLEN IN 186T. In genuine legal and intellectual strength, there was... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 páginas
...short summer — man a flower — He dies, alas! how soon he dies! 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. DR. S. JOHNSON : on Robert Levctt. This world death's region is, the other life's; And here it should... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 páginas
...firm, his eye was 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, And freed his soul the easiest way. The last stanza smells somewhat of the country tombstone ; but to read the whole and to... | |
 | Newburyport (Mass.). City Council - 1879 - 200 páginas
...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, And freed his soul the nearest way." After the eulogy the choir accompanied by the orchestra rendered " Happy and Blest are They," from... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 páginas
...firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throb of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. WOOD STREET. Samuel Johnson. AT the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that... | |
 | Newburyport (Mass.). City Council - 1879 - 198 páginas
...powers were bright Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, Jso cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way." • After the eulogy the choir accompanied by the orchestra rendered " Happy and Blest are They," from... | |
 | 1880 - 556 páginas
...firm, his eye was bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of flrey pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the easiest way. The last stanza smells somewhat of the country tombstones ; but to rend the whole and... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 páginas
...his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, of little men ; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all...together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's f SAMUEL JOHNSON. To MRS. UN wi if. MARY! I want a lyre with other strings, Such aid from heaven as some... | |
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