 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 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. Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die; Lest that pure breath of life—the spirit of man Which... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! some rare exotic thought, The melancholy man such...esteems ; Fain would he see some distant scene Suggeste cars ; no fear of worse To me, and to my offspring, would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one... | |
 | 534 pages
...,.how gladly would I meet Mortality, jny sentence, and be earth Insensible; ! how glad would lay mo down, As in my mother's lap ! there I should rest...And sleep secure : His dreadful voice no more "Would tjmnder in my ears. • • . But then came the dread of something after death — an immortality of... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 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 ! There I should rest, And sieep secure ; his dreadful voice no more Would thunder in my ears ; no fear of worse To me,. and to... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 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. Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die ; Lest that pure breath of life — the spirit of man... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 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. Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die ; Lest that pure breath of life, the spirit of Man Which... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 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. Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die ; Lest that pure breath of life, the spirit of Man Which... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 548 pages
...sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap ! there should I rest And sleep secure, his dreadful voice no more...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 suppose... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...deathless pain ! How gladly would I meet 775 " Mortality — my sentence, and be earth " Insensible ! How glad would lay me down/ " As in my mother's lap...more " Would thunder in my ears ; no fear of worse 760 " To me, and to my offspring, would torment me " With crael expectation '. Yet one doubt • Pursues... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pages
...sentence, and bo earth Insensible 1 how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lapl there should I rest And sleep secure ; his dreadful voice no more...off-spring, would torment me With cruel expectation. Ba 957.] SPECTATOR. 147 This whole speech is fall of the like emotion, and varied with all those sentiments... | |
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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... 
