 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.  Annual Register - Page 148edited by - 1785Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 652 pages
...sure the Eternal Master found His single talent well eirlploy'd. The busy day, the peaceful night4, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh5. ' ' Content thyself to be obscurely ful care ' ; I. 28, '... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 466 pages
...sure the Eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd. The busy day, the peaceful night 4 , Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh 5 . ' ' Content thyself to be obscurely good.' Addison's Cato,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 356 pages
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd. 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 throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 454 pages
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed. " 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... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 528 pages
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure th' Eternal Master found The single talent well employ 'd. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided...by ; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, And now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1924 - 440 pages
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed. " 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1927 - 560 pages
...The single talent well employ'd. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; 30 His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Tho' now...throbbing fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, 35 And forc'd his soul the nearest way. The poem was next printed... | |
 | English literature - 1925 - 638 pages
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure th' Eternal Master found The single talent well employed. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided...by ; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, And now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided...Tho' 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... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...pause, nor left a void; And sure th' Eternal Master found The single talent well employ 'd. The busy @ H<I<J<K< > ?b< 42@3@B@C@D@_>[@\@]@^@_@ <J@K@ $ =f4l@ ) ) > > > = =4;5;6; ?&@S@T@U@V@ ?x@ > = = ? Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay,... | |
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