 | English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...i Insensible, how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap .' there I should reit . i' '. N itj And sleep secure; his dreadful voice no more Would thunder in my ears, no fear of worse 7(0 To me and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still,... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...lengttien'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would 1 meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible, how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ?...no more Would thunder in my ears, no fear of worse 78* To me and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expeftation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 608 pages
...out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence, and be earth 776 Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap...would torment me With cruel expectation ! Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die; Lest that pure breath of life, the sp'rit of Man Which... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...To deathless pain ? how gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how gted would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! there I...offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die, Lest that pure breath of life, the spirit of man Which... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...Mortality my sentence, and he eanh lnsensihle? how ;flad would Iay me down, A, in my mother's lap? there l should rest And sleep secure; his dreadful voice no...one douht Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die; >stthat pure hreath of life, the sp'rit of man, iVhich God inspir'd, cannot tugether perish pVith this... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 394 pages
...out To deathless pain ? How gladly woald I meet 775 Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible, how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ?...no more Would thunder in my ears, no fear of worse 780 To me and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt DD 3 . Pursues... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...sentence, and be earth Insensible ! how glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap ! There should I reit And sleep secure ; his dreadful voice no more Would...offspring, would torment me With cruel expectation ' This whole speech is full of the like emotion, and varied with all those sentiments which we may... | |
 | 1803 - 422 pages
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 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 576 pages
...lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible ; how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap:...offspring, would torment me With cruel expectation. • This whole speech is full of the like emotion, and varied with all those sentiments which we may... | |
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His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my... 
