 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 348 páginas
...explained. ^ Dire was the tossing" deep the gr5ans'' Despair'' Tended the sick" busiest from couch to co6ch" And over them triumphant death" his dart" Shook" but delay'd to strike. Many of the rules and observations respecting Prosody, are taken from " Sheridan's Art of Reading ;"... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 322 páginas
...powers of many of the principles which have been explained. Dire was the tossing" deep the groans" Despair" Tended the sick" busiest from couch to couch"...triumphant death" his dart" Shook" but delay'd to strike. Many of the rules and observations respecting Prosody, are taken from ' Sheridan's Art of Reading ;'... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 páginas
...pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums, Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch;...triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft inyok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. Sight so deform what heart of rock... | |
 | Benjamin Blayney - 1810 - 540 páginas
...instrumentality of another, as when a person is slain by the sword. So our great Poet in his description of a lazar-house, Despair Tended the sick busiest from...to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shpok 21. They heard how I sighed, there was none that comforted me] Vtttttt' has no subject expressed,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 388 páginas
...last Saturday's paper I . • Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick, busy from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, tho' oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good and final hope.' The passion which likewise rises in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 páginas
...my last Saturday's paper 1 ' Dire was the tossing1, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick, busy from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but dclay'd to strike, tho' oft invok'd ' With vows, as their chief good and final hope.' The passion which... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 páginas
...a species of beauty that shews an intimacy with that father of poetry, in whom it occurs extreme! v often3. Milton has an exceeding fine one in the description...LOST, book xi. line 48g. 1 See two noble instances at 1. 141. of the 13th Book of the Iliad, and in the application of the same simile a few lines below.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 páginas
...I mentioned in my Jast paper. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans, Despair Tended the sick, busy from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows as their chief good and final hope. The passion which likewise rises in... | |
 | John Murray - 1812 - 426 páginas
...pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch...triumphant Death' his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd With vows its their chief good, and final hope. Sight so deform'd what heart of... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 páginas
...occurs extremely often. 9 Milton has an exceeding fine one in the description of his LazarHouse:— 'Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch, And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook,—but delay'd to strike," &c. • Despair Paradise Lost, book xi. line 489. ' See two noble... | |
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Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. 
