 As when some great and gracious monarch dies, Soft whispers, first, and mournful murmurs rise Among the sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers voice, and spreads the news around, Through town and country, till the dreadful blast Is blown to distant...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Seite 418von Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1881 - 244 Seiten
...: ' Thus, when some great and gracious monarch dies, Soft whispers first and mournful murmurs rise Among the sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers...dreadful blast Is blown to distant colonies at last.' There have been no such limitations to the sorrow for Chalmers. The United States and the Continent... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 534 Seiten
...charity. As when some great and gracious monarch dies, Soft whispers first, and mournful murmurs, rise Among the sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers...in vain, For his long life, and for his happy reign : So slowly, by degrees, unwilling fame Did matchless Eleonora's fate proclaim, Till public as the... | |
 | Virgil, William Rainey Harper, Frank Justus Miller - 1892 - 512 Seiten
...personification : As when some great and glorious monarch dies, Soft whispers, first, and mournful murmurs rise Among the sad attendants; then the sound Soon gathers...spreads the news around, Through town and country, till tin' dreadful blast Is blown to distant colonies a1 last. Ovid (Met. XII. 39 seq.) lescribes the house... | |
 | Virgil - 1893 - 614 Seiten
...some great and glorious monarch dies, Soft whispers, first, and monrnful murmurs rise Among the ead attendants; then the sound Soon gathers voice, and...dreadful blast Is blown to distant colonies at last. Ovid (Met. XII. 3n seq.) describes the house cf Fame. Throughout Vergil's description carefully compar"... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 Seiten
...gracious monarch dies, Tht IntroSoft whispers first and mournful murmurs rise . duction. Among tlie sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers voice...Through town and country, till the dreadful blast 5 Is blown to distant colonies at last ; Who then perhaps were offering vows in vain For his long life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 Seiten
..." As when some great and gracious monarch dies, Soft whispers, first, and mournful murmurs rise 30 Among the sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers...in vain, For his long life, and for his happy reign : So slowly by degrees, unwilling fame Did matchless Eleonora's fate proclaim, Till publick as the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 Seiten
...: 10 As when some great and gracious monarch dies, Soft whispers, first, and mournful murmurs rise Among the sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers...in vain, For his long life, and for his happy reign : So slowly, by degrees, unwilling Fame, Did matchless Eleonora's fate proclaim 20 Till public as the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 760 Seiten
...some great and gracious monarch dies, The IntroSoft whispers first and mournful murmurs rise aumtn. Among the sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers...Through town and country, till the dreadful blast 5 Is blown to distant colonies at last ; Who then perhaps were offering vows in vain For his long life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 Seiten
...lamented. ' As when some great and gracious monarch dies, Soft whispers first and mournful murmurs rise Among the sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers voice, and spreads the news around, Through town ahd country, till the dreadful blast Is blown to distant colonies at last ; Who then, perhaps, were... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 Seiten
...rise Among the sad attendants; then the sound Soon gathers voice, and spreads the news around Thro' town and country, till the dreadful blast Is blown...vain, For his long life, and for his happy reign: So slowly, by degrees, unwilling fame Did matchless Eleonora 's fate proclaim, i. Till public as the... | |
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