| 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 Adam on this... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 páginas
...occurs exlitroely often1. Milton has an exceeding fine one in the description of 1iis Lazar-House. Despair 'Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch,...over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, — but dclay'd to strike, &c.'' PARADISE LOST, book xi. line 48Q. As Shakespeare did not study versifiralion... | |
| John Murray - 1812 - 426 páginas
...and wide wasting pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick busiest...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 rock could long Dry ey'd behold... | |
| 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... | |
| John Gabriel Stedman - 1813 - 528 páginas
...madness ; pining atrophy, " Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums : " Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair " Tended the sick, busiest..." With vows, as their chief good and final hope." From day to day mortality now gained ground, while CHAP. by some accident, to complete the distress,... | |
| John Millard - 1813 - 704 páginas
...sin. Again, the angel describing to Adam, a large hospital, or lazar-house : Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick, busiest...And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delayed to strike. The following passage is a beautiful instance of the proper use of this figure.... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1813 - 662 páginas
...rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans, despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to conch ; And over them triumphant death his dart ¡Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd." But lazar-houses are not the only places whereby we may judge of the numbers of the wretched. Whore... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 páginas
...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 dan . Shook, but delay VI to strike, though oft invok'd With... | |
| John Kingston - 1814 - 472 páginas
...Dropsies, and astmas, and joint -racking rheums. Dire is the tossing ! Deep the groans ! Despair Attends the sick, busiest from couch to couch : And over them, triumphant Death his dart Shakes ; but delays to strike, tho' oft invok'd With vows as their chief good, and final hope. MII.TOK.... | |
| John Milton - 1817 - 214 páginas
...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 ; And over them trinmphant Death his dart Shook, but delay 'd to strike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief... | |
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