 | 1850 - 340 pagine
...miseries. No chronic* tortures rack'd his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourish'd none for him. " And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad...Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die." * A chronic disease is one of long duration. MIDNIGHT MEDITATION. WHEN restless on my bed I lie, Still... | |
 | Charles Baker - 1850 - 446 pagine
...rack'd his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourish'd none for him. And I am glad, that he has liv'd thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward;...Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die. 50. OF NABAL AND ABIGAIL. Samuel xxv. 2-35 BRYANT. There was a man in Maon named -Nabal who had lar;... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 380 pagine
...metaphor very elaborately, step by step, the aged mourner thus closes his homily over his dead brother: "' And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward; Nor can I deem that nature, did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. For when his hand grew palsied,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1850 - 770 pagine
...miseries. No chronic tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him. " And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor can I deem that nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. For when his hand grew palsied,... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 386 pagine
...metaphor very elaborately, step by step, the aged mourner thus closes his homily over his dead brother: "' And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward; Nor can I deem that nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. For when his hand grew palsied,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1853 - 376 pagine
...miseries. No chronic tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him. « And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor can I deem that nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. For when his hand grew palsied,... | |
 | Stephen W. Clark - 1853 - 242 pagine
..." The sun looked bright, the morning after."—Sterne. " Vanity often renders man contemptible." " When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, [it was his time to die.]'—Bryant, In the above sentence what is the use of " Our 1" ----- Ans. To define some particular... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1853 - 318 pagine
...g*™»ip his reward.; Nor deem that hi/idly natireeMl him wrong, Softly to disen^atre the vital'eord. When his weak hand grew palsied and his eye, Dark with the mists ofajje, it was his time to die." ^^^^^^^^maS Bryant. Questions.—I. How soon did our young friend... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pagine
...shall triumph in the Lord, Of pain and shame for Jesus' sake, Glory and joy are their reward. Watts. And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad...disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, with his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die. RICHES. LABOUR not to be rich: cease... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1855 - 320 pagine
...for him. Nor can I deem that nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. For when his hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die." THE EIVULBT. . THIS little rill, that from the springs Of yonder grove its current brings, Plays on... | |
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And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that kindly Nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye, Dark with the mists of age, it was his time... 
