 | Benjamin Blayney - 1810 - 540 páginas
...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 couch 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 - 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 712 páginas
...occurs extremely often3. Milton has an exceeding fine one in the description of his Lazar-House. " Despair "Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch, And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, — but delay'd to strike, &c.*' PARADISE LOST, book xi. line 48g. 1 See two noble instances at 1.141.... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 páginas
...occurs extreme! v often3. Milton has an exceeding fine one in the description of his Lazar-House. . " Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch, And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, — but delay'd to strike, &c.'' PARADISE LOST, book xi. line 48g. 1 See two noble instances at 1.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...; And over them 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... | |
 | 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
...atrophy, " 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 triumphant Death his dart " Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd " With vows, as their chief good and final hope." From day... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - 704 páginas
...angel describing to Adam, a large hospital, or lazar-house : 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 delayed to strike. The following passage is a beautiful instance of the proper use of this figure.... | |
 | 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.... | |
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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. 
