 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 604 pàgines
...concentrated on the placid enjoyment. The day Arthur Murphy died he kept repeating from Pope, " Taught lialf by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away." Nor does the calm partake of the sensitiveness of sickness. There was a swell in the sea the day Collingwood... | |
 | 1850 - 426 pàgines
...concentrated on the placid enjoyment. The day Arthur Murphy died, he kept repeating from Pope, m " Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away." Nor does the calm partake of the sensitiveness of sickness. There was a swell in the sea the day Collingwood... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pàgines
...; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests, to resign ; Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away. 260 Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pàgines
...here ; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests to resign; Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away. 260 Whate'er the passion, knowledge, 'fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself.... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pàgines
...decays. Dryden. Each may feel increases and decays, And see now clearer, and now darker days. ****** Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away. Pope. And those decays, to speak" the naked truth, Through the defects of age, were crimes of youth.... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1855 - 686 pàgines
...removal or departure from my present state of existence so much the more welcome and desirable — Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away. " For which I am now waiting, and thus according to the words of the aged person, I may say, ' Few... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pàgines
...; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests to resign ; Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away. aeo Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, 261 Not one will change his neighbour with himself.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pàgines
...; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests to resign ; Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away. 260 Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, 261 Not one will change his neighbour \vith himself.... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pàgines
...; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests to resign ; Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away. Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame or]>elf, Not one will change his neighbor with himoi'lf. The... | |
 | Henry George Davis - 1859 - 322 pàgines
...presentation to Christ's Hospital. He died June 18th, 1805, frequently repeating during the day the couplet of Pope — " Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome Death, and calmly pass away." It was to Murphy, Johnson owed his introduction to Mr. Thrale. " I question," says Madame D'Arblay,... | |
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Each home-felt joy that life inherits here; Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, Those joys, those loves, those interests, to resign; Taught, half by reason, half by mere decay, To welcome death, and calmly pass away. 
