 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...the 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, Though now his eightieth year was uigh. Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 494 pages
...single talent well employed. VIII. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; nis frame was firm, his 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...Eternal Master found The single talent well employed. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm — his...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 issuing... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...glided by ; His frame was firm — 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 gav'st... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...siugle talent well employ'd, 'he busy day — the peaceful night, I1 iifelt , uncounted, glided by ; lie frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was night. hen with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, leath broke at once the vital... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...Master found T»he single talent well employed. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, unclouded, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright,....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 pages
...wasfirm, 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 - English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
...Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm — his...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 ! whose... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...liis powers were bright, Though now bis eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery p»in, 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...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...throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death bjroke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. JOHN ARMSTRONG. J OHN ARMSTRONG,... | |
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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,... 
