| John Gabriel Stedman - 1813 - 528 lapas
...atrophy, " Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums : " Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair " Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch....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 to day mortality now... | |
| John Millard - 1813 - 704 lapas
...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.... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1813 - 662 lapas
...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... | |
| John Kingston - 1814 - 472 lapas
...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.... | |
| Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 lapas
...approach of even or morn. Celestial voices to the midnight air Sole || or responsive each to other's note. And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook || but delay'd to strike. And wild uproar Stood rul'd || stood vast infinitude confm'd. And hard'ning in his strength Glories... | |
| John Milton - 1817 - 214 lapas
...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... | |
| Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Nicole - 1818 - 448 lapas
...yet run'st towards him still. Meat, for Mett. 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 delayed to strike.0 PL xi. 489. * The supreme Being (God, &tog, Deus, Dieu, &c.) is in all languages... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1818 - 320 lapas
...been explained. Dire w&s the tdssmg" deep the gr6ans" Despair'' T6nded the sick" busiest from cotich to couch" And over them triumphant death" his dart" Shook" but delay'd to strike. Many of the rules and observations respecting Prosody, are taken from " Sheridan's Art of Reading ;"... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 376 lapas
...Saturday,s paper ! ' Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick, busy from conch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, tho, oft invok,d With vows, as their chief good and final hope., The passion which likewise rises in... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 378 lapas
...Saturday's paper ! " Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick, busy from conch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, tho' oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good and final hope.' The passion which likewise rises in... | |
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