 The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. " Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain,...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Страница 556по John Hawkins - 1787 - 605 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1809 - 914 страници
...powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. ' IX. Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. CURIOUS ANECDOTES OF A POPULAR PERFORMER. Prom Jtyley's Itinerant,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 страници
......his powers were brigBt, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. EPITAPH ON CLAUDE PHILLIPS, AN ITINERANT MUSICIAN.* i PHILLIPS... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 страници
...his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was uigh. Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And forc'd his soul the nearest wayPROLOGUE. fyoken by Garrick, at the Opening of tAc TheatreRoyal,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 страници
...his powers were bright, Thojgh now his eightieth year was night. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Rest here, dislrest by poverty no more, Find here that calm thou... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 страници
...his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. LI. THE BATTLE OF AHGOED LLYFAIN* WHITEHEAD. MORNING rose ; the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 страници
...his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And forc'd his soul the nearest way. EPITAPHS. ON SIR THOMAS HANMER, BART. THOU who survey'st these... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 страници
...his powers were bright,. Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay; Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. EPITAPH ON CLAUDE PHILLIPS, An itinerant [Musician. PHILLIPS, whose... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 страници
...hi» powers wire bright, Though now Mi eightieth year wa« nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. In one of Johnson's registers of this year, there occurs the following... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 страници
...his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. i 17 EPITAPH ON CLAUDE PHILIPS, AN ITINERANT MUSICIAN.* PHILIPS... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 378 страници
...his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way." In one of Johnson's registers of this year, there occurs the following... | |
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