 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 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... | |
 | Definitions - 1881 - 160 páginas
...Death — " Dear, beauteous — the jewel of the just." Henry Vaughan. The portal of the Silent Land. " To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er." Garth. — " The great teacher." Pope. — " There is a Reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1881 - 420 páginas
...sky. — Byron. b. They never taste who always drink, They always talk who never think. — Prior. c. To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er. — Garth. d. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 páginas
...the chinks of her sickness-broken body. «. FULLER — The Holy and the Profane Stale. Bk. L Ch. II To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...: Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis oe'r. i: GARTH - The Dispensary. Canto III. Line 225. Where the brass knocker, wrapt in flannel band, Forbids... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 páginas
...the chinks of her sickness-broken body. «. FULLER — The Holy and the Profane State. Bk. I. Ch. II iel Keeler Hoyt oe'r. v. GARTH —The Dispensary . Canto III. Line 225. Where the brass knocker, wrapt in flannel band,... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 932 páginas
...place, There defendant and plaintiff get equally cast, There shoemakers quietly stick to the last (Lmdi. To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...: Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er. (Oortft The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (Qny. LIVING THOUGHTS OF GREAT THINKERS. 795 Cowards... | |
 | Mary Frederica P. Dunbar - 1883 - 416 páginas
...LORD LYTTELTON. Hie him home at evening's close To sweet repast and calm repose. i , , THOMAS GREY. To die is landing on some silent shore Where billows...; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. SAMUEL GARTH, 176O. January 16. A man he seems, of cheerful yesterdays And confident to-morrows. WORDSWORTH.... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...honour, praise, and glory given, By all on earth, and all in heaven. Doxology. SAMUEL GARTH. 1G70-1719. 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. Lint 225. 1 I do not distinguish by the eye, but by tho mind,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 páginas
...mortal lair, And love and life contend in it. Percy B. Shelley. To die is landing on some friendly shore, Where billows never break nor tempests roar. Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. William Garth (1670-1719). What is death ? To go out like a light, and in a sweet trance to forget... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 páginas
...There defendant and plaintiff get equally cast, There shoemakers quietly stick to the last (Lowell. To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never break nor tempesu roar : Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'ti* o'er. (Garth. The paths of glory lead but... | |
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To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never break nor tempests roar : Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er. 
