 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.  The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ... - Página 2031809Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 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 which... | |
 | 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,...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. of the 13th Book of the... | |
 | 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,...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. of the 13th Book of die... | |
 | 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 which likewise rises in Adam on this... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 páginas
...occurs exlitroely often1. Milton has an exceeding fine one in the description of 1iis Lazar-House. Despair 'Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch,...over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, — but dclay'd to strike, &c.'' PARADISE LOST, book xi. line 48Q. As Shakespeare did not study versifiralion... | |
 | John Murray - 1812 - 426 páginas
...pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide wasting pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended...Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd With vows its their chief good, and final hope. Sight so deform'd what heart of rock could long Dry ey'd... | |
 | 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 - 516 páginas
...melancholy, " And moon-struck madness ; pining atrophy, " Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums : " Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair "...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 gained ground, while CHAP.... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - 704 páginas
...completing of the mortal sin. Again, the angel describing to Adam, a large hospital, or lazar-house : Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended...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.... | |
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