 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated friendship claims a...away ; New forms arise, and different views engage, Superfluous3 lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...maintain my usual rate : no more. Franca. Horace. Epistle 2. To LoUiiu. Superfluous lags the vet' ran on the stage, Till pitying nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worlh retire to peace. JoAnion. The Panity of Human ffisket. LAGASCA, in Botany, a genus of the class... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Biography - 1846 - 566 pages
...Now Sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated friendship claims a...release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace." Nothing, with perhaps the exception of the last couplet but one, can be finer : and the couplet immediately... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1846 - 318 pages
...Now Sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mounts. Now kindred merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated friendship claims a...Till pitying nature signs the last release, And bids afHicted worth retire to peace." Nothing, with perhaps the exception of the last couplet but one, can... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns ; Now kindred merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated friendship claims a...year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away ; New forms arise and diffrent views engage, Superfluous lags the veteran on the... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable hier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear. Year chases...stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And hids afflicted worth retire to peace. But few there are whom hours like these await, Who set unclouded... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 428 pages
...period of its history, equally short, have such shining marks been found. " Now kindred merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated friendship claims a...; Still drops some joy from withering life away." Scholarship, Jurisprudence, Art, Humanity, each has been called to mourn its chosen champion. Pickering,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 436 pages
...its history, equally short, have such shining marks been found. " Now kindred merit fills the sal'le bier, Now lacerated friendship claims a tear ; Year...; Still drops some joy from withering life away." Scholarship, Jurisprudence, Art, Humanity, each has been called to mourn its chosen champion. Pickering,... | |
 | John Macfarlane - 1851 - 358 pages
...For while thy service I pursue, I find my heaven begun below.' CHAPTER II. QL])e ^astor'a Heatfj. ' Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops...release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.' DR JOHNSON. THE death of Agnes' mother well nigh overwhelmed the surviving parent, the Rev. JAMES MACFABLANE,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pages
...New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter* mourns. Now kindred merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated friendship claims a...year, decay pursues decay. Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage; Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the... | |
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New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear. Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from... 
