| British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! there I should rest And sleep secure. Ibid, b. 10. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; despair Tended...And over them triumphant death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. Ibid, b. 11.... | |
| 1824 - 478 pages
...fit. ophi, Marasmus ami wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, ami a-thmas, and joint-lacking rheums, Din was the tossing, deep the groans, Despair Tended the...couch to couch, And over them triumphant Death his dort Shook, but delayed to strike, though oil. invoked With vows, as their chief good and final hopes.... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...pining atrophy. Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; 490 And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd With... | |
| Samuel Oliver (jun.) - 1825 - 418 pages
...lines afford examples of many of the principles which have been explained, in their united powers here. Dire' was the toss'ing," deep' the groans' :" Despair'...them'" trium'phant Death " his dart' Shook'," but delay'd' ' to strike'. 7 *,. V " ' • ' • CHAPTER V. POETICAL LICENSE. H - . - - . - i . .' . THE... | |
| 1825 - 486 pages
...'' with us, are so accustomed to this notion, that a. female death they would treat as ridiculous." Dire was the tossing, deep the groans Despair, Tended...sick, busiest from couch to couch : And over them triumphing Death his dart Shook; but delayed to strike. MILTON. On the same principle, our immortal... | |
| Philomathic institution - 1825 - 504 pages
...'' with us, are so accustomed to this notion, that a female death they would treat as ridiculous." Dire was the tossing, deep the groans Despair, Tended...sick, busiest from couch to couch : And over them trinmphing Death his dart Shook ; but delayed to strike. MILTON. On the same principle, our immortal... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1825 - 278 pages
...subject, with an example containing the united 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" And over them :riumphant death" his dart" Shook" but delay "d to strike. Many of the rules and observations respecting... | |
| James Boaden - Actors - 1825 - 650 pages
...Lazarhouse of Milton, " Demoniac phrenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atropby. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans, despair Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch." The actress was so powerful in this scene of miseries, that several ladies fainted; and the German... | |
| Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busied from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook." Book xi. ver. 477.— WAKEFIELD. The1 painful family of Death, More hideous than their queen : This... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended...And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. 493 Sight so... | |
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