 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...the Eternal Master found, His single talent well employed. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 pages
...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...Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs cf fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...Eternal Master found The single talent well employed. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, , before his country's voice had called The ardent youth to fields of honour far Bey nvjh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 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 powers...of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Extracts from the Vanity of human Wishes. "Enlarge my life with multitude... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...the Eternal Master found, His single talent well emploved. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now liis eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay ; Death... | |
 | 1854 - 590 pages
...and unanticipated in this instance was the coming of the Son of man. " 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." The immediate cause of death is supposed to have been disease of the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...the Eternal Master found, His single talent well employed. The tusy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...Master found The single talent well employ'd. 8 The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, unclouded, glided by ; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. 9 Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...found The single talent well employ'd. -., ~ 8 The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, unclouded, glided by ; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, ' Though now his eightieth year was nigh. \ 9 Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1888 - 550 pages
...short, his death so easy, that it might be said of him, in the words he was fond of repeating, — " 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." It was a little strange, and seems now almost ominous, that not long... | |
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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,... 
