 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,...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Page 256by James Boswell - 1807Full view - About this book
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 lehte
...retired to die. Stanza 5. 1 Var. His ready help was always nigh. Then with no throbs of fiery pain,1 No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Verses on Robert Levet. Stanza 9. Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 lehte
...firm, 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, 35 And freed his soul the nearest way. Samuel Johnson. CLXV HIGHLAND MARY. Ye banks and braes and streams... | |
 | 1869 - 398 lehte
...day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year wa.s nigh. " Then, with no throbs of flery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at o.nce the vital chain, And freed his soul the... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 lehte
...firm, 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...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. JAMES MERRICK. (1720-1769.) THE CAMELEON. OKT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 lehte
...fIrm, 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...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. THE KITE; OR, PRIDE MUST HAVE A KALI.. JOHN NEWTON.— 1725-1807. [THE "Olney Hymns" establish the... | |
 | Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 lehte
...because he so totally dedicated himself to alleviating the bodily pains of others: Then with no throbbing fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke...vital chain, And free'd his soul the nearest way. [Poems 235.33-36] A life spent watching the poor and the obscure die has prepared Levet for acceptance... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 lehte
...stanza and subsequent reascent to bright day, images a transcendent immediacy of the eternal moment: "Death broke at once the vital chain, / And free'd his soul the nearest way." The rhyme at the end echoes the first stanza, and the redemptive "and" is the soft transition that... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 lehte
...the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed. (1. 25-28) 4 Then with no fiery throbbing ) 53 The ri . (1. 33-36) EBEV; HelP; InPS; NAEL-1: NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEV; PoE; PoEL-3; PPP; SCV; TEP 241... | |
 | Wayne J. Urban - 2000 - 1372 lehte
...frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbbing fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Like Alexander Pope (1688-1744), who had spoken of "This long disease, my life', Johnson reworks the... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 422 lehte
...frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbbing fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And forced his soul the nearest way. MATTHEW 25:30-33 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness:... | |
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