 I thank God, her death was as easy as her life was innocent ; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet upon her countenance such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it.  Biographical Essays - Page 141by Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 360 pages
...ninety-three years old. Three days after, writing to Eichardson the painter, for the purpose of urging Viim to come down and take her portrait before the coffin...to support the silence of her chamber, and did not return for months, nor in fact ever reconciled himself to the sight of her vacant apartment. Swift... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 pages
...such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it. It would afford the finest image of a saint expired, that ever painting drew : and it would be the greatest obligation which even that obliging art could ever bestow on a friend,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it. It would afford the finest image of a saint expired that ever painter drew ; and it would be the greatest obligation which even that obliging art could ever bestow... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 414 pages
...such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it. It would afford the finest image of a saint expired that ever painting drew ; and it would be the greatest obligation which even that obliging art could ever bestow on a friend,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1869 - 414 pages
...such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behuld it. It would afford the finest image of a saint expired that ever painting drew ; and it would be the greatest obligation which even that obliging art could ever bestow on a friend,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it. It would afford the finest image of a saint expired that ever painter drew; and it would be the greatest obligation which even that obliging art could ever bestow... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 410 pages
...such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it. It would afford the finest image of a saint expired that ever painter drew; and it would be the greatest obligation which even that obliging art could ever bestow... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1870 - 290 pages
...months after this loss, which greatly affected Pope, came the last deadly wound which this life-could inflict, in the death of his mother. She had for some...you die as happily.' The funeral took place on the 11th ; Pope then quitted the house, unable to support the silence of her chamber, and did not return... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it. It would afford the finest image of a saint expired that ever painting drew ; and it would be the greatest obligation which even that obliging art could ever bestow on a friend,... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - Literary Criticism - 1872 - 370 pages
...such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it. It would afford the finest image of a saint expired that ever painting drew ; and it would be the greatest obligation which even that obliging art could ever bestow on a friend,... | |
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