 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 378 Seiten
...paper ! " Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick, busy from conch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, tho' oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good and final hope.' The passion which likewise rises in... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 Seiten
...rheum's. Dire was the tossing, deep the groan? ; Despair Tended the sick busjest from couch to conch ; 430 And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope, Sight so deform what heart of rock could long Dry-eyM... | |
 | John Trumbull - 1820 - 468 Seiten
...appear'd, sad, noisom, dark, A Lazar house it seem'd Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch, And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike Milton. He, who most methods has essay'd, Is the best Gen'ral of the trade, And stands Death's plenipotentiary... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 Seiten
...rheums. 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 invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. Sight so deform what heart of rock could long Dry-ey'd... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 Seiten
...ever polluted the fair fields of literature, under the spoliated banners of the press. LKTTER XXXVI. Over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd With TOWS, as their chief good, and final hope. MILTON. To DR. CALDWELL. London, July 17, 1819. IT... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 Seiten
...rheums. 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. Sight so deform what heart of rock could long... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 Seiten
...wand." " 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." " From his slack hand the garland, wreath'd for Eve, Down dropt, and all the faded roses shed ; Speechless... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 Seiten
...paper ! 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. ib. 4-8S). The passion which likewise rises... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...b. 10. 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 invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. Ibid, b. 11. His victims ; youths, and virgins, in... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 Seiten
...any other word in the room of dire or deep, and you will perceive the difference. And then follows And over them triumphant death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike. As the image is wonderfully fine, so it is excellently expressed with the pause upon the first syllable... | |
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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. 
