 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay uie down, As iu HIV mother,s lap ! There should 1 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... | |
 | James Ferguson (advocate) - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...serrtence, and be earth Insensible ! how jjlad 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... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...out To deathless pain ? how gladly would I meet 775 Mortality my aenteiwjB, and be earth Insensible, how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ?...secure ; his dreadful voice no more Would thunder in rny ears, no fear of worse "80 To me and to my offspring would torment me V.'ith cruel ex-pecthtion.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...out To deathless pain? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth o « 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 - 1821 - 340 pages
...out To 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 ?...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,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 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 - 1823 - 304 pages
...overlive ? Why am I mock'd with death, and lengthen'd out To deathless pain 1 How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and he earth Insensihle ! How...expectation. Yet one douht Pursues me still, lest all I caunot die ; Lest that pure hreath of life, the spirit of Man Which God inspired, caunot, together... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...lengthened 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 suppose... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 816 pages
...pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! how glad would lay me As in my mother's lap ! There I should rest And sleep...offspring, would torment me With cruel expectation.— x. 771. This whole speech is full of the like emotion, and varied with all those sentiments which we... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...out To 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 ?...no more Would thunder in my ears, no fear of worse 730 To me and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me stiU,... | |
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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... 
