 | John Chappel Woodhouse - Bible - 1805 - 696 pages
...says : • — — — — 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 sletp secure ! — — — — — — — • — yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...gladly- would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! how glad would lay me down c 25 As in my mother's lap ! there I should rest And sleep...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 - 1807 - 514 pages
...meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible, how glad would lay me down MILTON. VOE. II. N As in my mother's lap ? there I should rest And sleep...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 Pursues me still,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 390 pages
...sentence, and be earth Insensible ! how glad would lay me 5 :... 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... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 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... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...how gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down c As in my mother's lap ! there I should rest And sleep...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... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...how gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible, how glad wpuld lay me dowa As in my mother's lap? there I should rest And sleep...fear of worse To me and to my offspring would torment we With cruel expectalioa. Vet one donbl Pursues me still, lest nil I cannot die-, Lost tlial (iiire... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 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...worse To me, and to my offspring, would torment me Witu cruel expectation—' This whole speech is full of the like emotion, and varied with all those... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 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...off-spring, 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 - 1817 - 214 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 !...of worse To me, and to my offspring, would torment m« With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die ; Lest that pure... | |
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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... 
