 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 halaman
...firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. IX. Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. CURIOUS ANECDOTES OF A POPULAR PERFORMER. From Hyley's Itinerant ; or, the Memoirs of an Actor. COOK... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 halaman
...uncounted, glided by; 'His frame was firm— his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was uigh. Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations...of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And forc'd his soul the nearest wayPROLOGUE. fyoken by Garrick, at the Opening of tAc TheatreRoyal, Drury-Lane,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 halaman
...glided by ; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Thojgh now his eightieth year was night. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Rest here, dislrest by poverty no more, Find here that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undistiirb'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 halaman
...glided by ; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. LI. THE BATTLE OF AHGOED LLYFAIN* WHITEHEAD. MORNING rose ; the issuing sun Saw the dreadful fight... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 halaman
...his eightieth year was night. hen with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, leath broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Rest here, distrest by poverty no more, Find here that calm tbou gav'st so oft before ; Sleep undistnrb'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 halaman
...uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations...of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And forc'd his soul the nearest way. EPITAPHS. ON SIR THOMAS HANMER, BART. THOU who survey'st these walls... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 halaman
...unclouded, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright,. Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. EPITAPH ON CLAUDE PHILLIPS, An itinerant [Musician. PHILLIPS, whose touch harmonious could remove,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 halaman
...wasfirm, hi» powers wire bright, Though now Mi eightieth year wa« nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. In one of Johnson's registers of this year, there occurs the following curious passage: Jan. 20. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 halaman
...glided by ; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. i 17 EPITAPH ON CLAUDE PHILIPS, AN ITINERANT MUSICIAN.* PHILIPS ! whose touch harmonious could remove... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 halaman
...liis powers were bright, Though now bis eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery p»in, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. In one of Johnson's registers of this year, there occurs the following curious passage: Jan. 20. The... | |
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The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain,... 
