 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 1825 - 728 pages
...asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans: Despair Tended the sick, busied from couch to couch; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook." Book xi. ver. 477.—WAKEFIELD. The painful family of Death, More hideous than their queen: This racks... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 592 pages
...and wide-wasting pestilence. Dire wax the tensing, deep the groans : DESPAIR Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch. And over them triumphant DEATH his dart Shook: but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good and final hope. The disorders of the mind,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. 493 Sight so deform what... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 588 pages
...busiest from couch to couch : And over them, triumphant death his 'brt Shakes; but delays to strike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. MILTON. To close the horrible prospect, view the ruins of cities and kingdoms, the calamities of wrecks... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 264 pages
...asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delayed to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. 493 Sight so... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Joab Goldsmith Cooper - English language - 1828 - 218 pages
...importance of a particular word. Dire was the tossing" deep the groans" Despair Tended the sick" busiest from couch to couch" And over them triumphant death" his dart" Shook" but delayed to strike. Questions. What is versification? What do you mean by rhyme? What are the constituent... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans. Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook; but delayed to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. L ALLEGRO. Hence,... | |
 | Eliza Weaver Bradburn - 1828 - 158 pages
...maladies. ^.fter a list of terrible disorders, the poet ceeds:— Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook. Adam wept, overcome by compassioi so sudden a view of the consequences of After some conversation,... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 390 pages
...asthmas, and joint-racking rheums;. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans; Despair Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch: And over them triumphant death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good and final hope. Sight so deform what heart... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1831 - 436 pages
...asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans. Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook; but delayed to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. I.'ALLEGRO. Hence,... | |
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from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to ftrike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. Sight fo deform, what heart of rock could long Dry-ey'd behold ? Adam could not, but wept, 
