 | Philip Neve - 1789 - 164 pàgines
...image was to be illustrated by a paufe, Dire was the toffing, deep the groans, Defpair Tended the fick, bufieft from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook~ but delay'd to ftrike. ' or by an accent, Gambol'd before them ; th' wmvieldy elephant, or by a burthen of the verfe, Created... | |
 | Philip Neve - 1789 - 164 pàgines
...illuftrated by a paufej Dire Dire was the toffing, deep the groans, Defpair Tended the fick, bufiefl from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook— but delay'd to flrike. or by an accent, Gambol'd before them ; th' «»wieldy elephant. [ '•i or by a burthen of... | |
 | William Belsham - 1789 - 482 pàgines
...which can render exiftence a curfe. Dire is the toffing, deep the groans ! Defpair, Sending the fick, bufieft from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shakes, but delays to ftrike, tho' oft invok'd With vows; as their chief good and final hope. Is this... | |
 | John Milton - 1789 - 278 pàgines
...I>ire was the toffing, deep the groans ; Defpair Tended the fick, bufieft from couch to couch ; 49® And over them triumphant Death his .dart Shook, but delay'd to ftrike, though oft invoked ., With vows, as their chief .good• and finaHiope. ; §ight fo deform what heart... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 258 pàgines
...rheums. Dire was the toffing, deep the groans ; Defpair Tended the fick bufieft from couch to couch ; 490 And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to ftrike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. Sight fo deform what heart of rock... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 pàgines
...afthmas, and joint racking rheums. Dire was the tolling, deep the groans ; Defpair Tended the fick bufieft from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to ftrike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. Sight fo deform, what heart of rock... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pàgines
...AiiTap, ETTHT' qunwri (3ix@Milton, in Par. Loft. xi. 491. has attempted this beauty with fuccefs : And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook ; but delay'd to ftrike. In Gray's fragment of a poetical eflay, there is a couplet worthy of notice in this refpect : Here... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 384 pàgines
...decent fteps a filver wand." " Dire was the tofling, deep the groans ; Defpair Tended the fick, buiieft from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to ftrike." " From his flack hand the garland, wreath'd for Eve, Down dropt, and all the faded rofes med j Speechlefs... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 pàgines
...Sole, — or refponfive to each other's note, Singing their great Creator ? - Ршг. Löß, Ь. $» And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, - but delay'd to ftrike. Id. See alfo Horn. Odyff. L 9. v. 290. (x) Thus ftretchM out, huge in length, the arch fiend' lay.... | |
 | 1811 - 578 pàgines
...medical staff in that disastrous cam paign, where " '*-< — — — Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch, And over them triumphant death his dart Shook, nor delay'd to strike." The officers were quartered in billets at such a distance from Ute general... | |
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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. 
