 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1839 - 388 páginas
...asthma, and joint-racking rheum. 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 delayed to strike — Living in the dawn of literature, Langland had not the • Nature. t Foragers.... | |
 | THOMAS WEMYSS - 1840 - 560 páginas
...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 Shook, but delay'd to strike." PAR. LOST, B. 11, 489. As the word death, when applied to the animal nature,... | |
 | Thomas Wemyss - 1840 - 536 páginas
...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 Shook, but delay'd to strike." PAR. LOST, a 11, 489. As the word death, when applied to the animal nature,... | |
 | James Harris - 1841 - 616 páginas
...And yet run'st towards him still. Meas. for Meas. So Milton : 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. Par. Lost, xi. 489. ° The Supreme Being (God, 0eo9, Deus, Dieu, &c.) is in... | |
 | James Harris - 1841 - 652 páginas
...And yet run'et towards him still. Meas, for Meas. So Milton : 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. Par. Lost, xi. 489. • The Supreme Being (God, веос, Deus, Dieu, &e.)... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; , and »aid, •Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the Eanh; Sulxlue it, and throughout dominion hold but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd With vown, as their chief good, and final hope. Sight so... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 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'dto strike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. « O mon maître... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 páginas
...Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ! Despair 490 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. Sight so... | |
 | George Rapall Noyes - 1837 - 316 páginas
...Death : ie natural death by famine or pestilence. A personification. See Jer. ix. 21 ; Hab. ii. 5. « Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch...; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook." Par. Lost, xi. 489. II. 1. — covered with a cloud : ie degraded ; treated with indignity. _ his footstool.... | |
 | 1902 - 908 páginas
...lazar-house it seem'd, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseas'd ; 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. Paradise Lost, XL, 477, NO. 27— ELIJAH SEATED IN THE CHARIOT OF FIRE. 17 x... | |
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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. 
