 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. - Page 418by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...poem. -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... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...poem, • As when some great and gracious monarch dies, Soft whispers first, and mournful murmurs, rise Among the sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers...last, Who then, perhaps, were offering vows in vain, Tor his long life, and for his happy reign : So slowly, by degrees, unwilling fame -i Did matchless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...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...in vain, For his long life, and for his happy reign ; So slowly, by degrees, unwilling Fame 1 Pid matchless Eleonora's fate proclaim, | Till publick as... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...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...around, Through town and country, till the dreadful blait Is blown to distant colonies at last, Who then, perhaps, were offering vows in vain, For his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...when some great and gracious monarch dies, Soft whispers, first, and mournful murmurs, rise Anioug the sad attendants ; then the sound Soon gathers voice,...colonies at last, Who then, perhaps, were offering vows iu vain, For his long life, and for his happy reign ; So slowly, by degrees, unwilling fame Did matchless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...gracious monarch dies, Soft vhispcrs, first, and mournful murmurs, rise Among the sad attendants t then the sound Soon gathers voice, and spreads the...blown to distant colonies at last, Who then, perhaps, w ere offering vows in vain, For his long life, and for his happy reign ; So slowly, by degrees, unwilling... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...news around, Through town and country, till the dreadful blafl Is blown to diftaiit colonies at lad, Who then, perhaps, were offering vows in vain, For his long life, and for his happy reign ; So flowly, by degrees, unwilling Fame Did matchlefs Eleonora's fate proclaim, Till publick as the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 610 pages
...elegant copy pf vcrfes. DERRICK. t The Earl is faid to have given Dryden 500 guineas for this poem. Who, then, perhaps, were offering vows in vain, For his long life, and for his happy reign : So Ilowly, by degrees, unwilling fame Did matchlefs Eleonora's fate proclaim, Till public as the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...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...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 - 1818 - 410 pages
...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...Through town and country, till the dreadful blast la blown to distant colonies at last, Who then, perhaps, were offering vows in vain, For his long life,... | |
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