| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise." Letter to Cob ham. SAMUEL GARTH. 1670-1719. To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...tempests roar ; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 't is o'er. The Dispensary? Canto iii. Line 225. 1 See Shakespeare, Tamingofthe Shrew, Act ii. Sc.... | |
| George Dawson - 1876 - 312 páginas
...they have earned from long use and faithful service. CHAPTEE XTII. BRIEF TRIBUTE TO A DEPARTED FRIEND. To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, t'is o'er. — [Garth. Nor kings nor nations One moment can retard th' appointed hour. — [Dryden. The world's... | |
| George Bruce - 1876 - 642 páginas
...infallible cure for all others : — "To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never beat, nor tempests roar, Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. But was it an evil ever so great, it could not be remedied but by one much greater, which is, by living... | |
| 1877 - 362 páginas
..., Heury IV. — All that lives must DlE, Passing through nature to eternity. — Ibid., Hamlet. — To DIE is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. S. GARTH, The Dispeusary. — They never fail who DIE In a great cause. — BYRON, Marino Faliero.... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 páginas
...Death hath the bounds of misery confined, Whose sanctuary shrouds affliction best. Earl of Stirling. llow, be, Thus lingering at my side ? " "My king,...guarded thee," he cried. * 256 FLATTERY For if thou no Garth. When I rise again to life, From the tranquil sleep of death, And, released from earthly strife,... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 páginas
...Death's what the guilty fear, the pious crave, Sought by the wretch, and vanquish'd by the brave. GARTH. To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. GARTH. The good man warn'd us from his text That none could tell whose turn should be the next. GAY.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 páginas
...head, On Death. 'Tis to the vulgar death too harsh appears ; The ill we feel is only in our fears. To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. The wise through thought the insults of death defy ; The fools through blessed insensibility. 'Tis what the guilty fear, the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 páginas
...infallible cure for all others. To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never beat, nor tempests roar. Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. — GARTH. For, abstracted from the sickness and sufferings usually attending it, it is no more than... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle. Macbeth. Acti.Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE. 0, when the moon shines, and dogs do howl, Then, then, is the joy Ч is o'er. The Dispensary, Cant ¡il. S. GARTH. And, like a passing thought, she fled In light away.... | |
| John Wesley Hanson - 1880 - 340 páginas
...infallible .cure of all others. • To die_is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never beat, nor tempests roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. * * How little they [ministers] God's counsels comprehend, The universal parent, guardian, friend !... | |
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