| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 778 páginas
...blindness : — " • Samson hath quit himself Like Samson, and heroically hath finished A life heroic. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...contempt, Dispraise or blame ; nothing but well and fair." The Spanish musician, FRANCIS SALISAS, who flourished in the sixteenth century, was born blind. Nevertheless,... | |
| 1846 - 430 páginas
...of American sympathy sends up from our Jackson's bed of death its paean of mournful exultation — " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." The valley of the Mississippi, the theatre of his youthful valour and his meridian renown — the sanctuary... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1846 - 392 páginas
...may truly say, " Samson hath quit himself Like Samson, and heroically hath finished A life heroic. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair." Milton's great work is usually thought, from its length, the elevation of its style, and the sublimity... | |
| Edward Everett - 1848 - 586 páginas
...and happiest yet, all this With God not parted from him, — But favoring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us, in a death so noble." •i HE rouowcra B THI OBDEB or rta Sumou ON OCCASION or IBI DEUTIBT or tea rOEEGOISO Kl'LUUY. (Tommonuu-alll)... | |
| John Stoughton - 1848 - 356 páginas
...of the House of Lords. t See Ilallum's Middle Ages, vol. ip 448. CHAPTER V. THE BRAVE LORD BROOKE. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...contempt, Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair." MILTON, Samson Agouistes. AMONG the beautiful rivers that run through the heart of old England, there... | |
| Sir Edward Strachey - 1848 - 116 páginas
...pleasure which contains in itself the germs of the highest moral and intellectual life. Nothing but good and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble : — These are the words in which Milton sums up the catastrophe of the Samson Agonistes, the drama... | |
| Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 páginas
...yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was fear'd, But favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soak'd in his enemies' blood; and from the stream With lavers pure, and cleansing herbs, wash off The... | |
| William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 110 páginas
...best and happiest yet, all this, With God not parted from him, But favoring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us, in a death so noble." He was happy in the circumstances of his death : it came with comparative suddenness. But when is death... | |
| Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 páginas
...and happiest yet, all this With God not parted from him, — But favoring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...but well and fair, And what may quiet us, in a death BO noble." THE CAMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL.* MAT rr PLEASE TOUR HONOR : I RISE, in obedience to your call,... | |
| John Stoughton - 1850 - 414 páginas
...Saviour's, Southwark. * See Hallam's Middle Ages, vol. ip 488. CHAPTER V. THE BRAVE LORD BROOKE. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...weakness, no contempt, Dispraise or blame, nothing bnt well and fair." MILTON, Samson Agonistes. AMONG the beautiful rivers that run through the heart... | |
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