 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 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——." Tin's whole speech is full of the like emotion, and varied with all those sentiments which we may suppose... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1849 - 296 pages
...775 Mortality my sentence, and be earth :. - . Pix'd on this day? Why do I overlive ? : i Insensible! How glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap!...secure; his dreadful voice no more Would thunder in tny ears, no fear of worse 780 To me and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...be earth . Insensible ! How glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! There I should rest, find sleep secure ; his dreadful voice 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 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, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...— my sentence, and be earth " Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, " As in my mother's lap 1 2 There I should rest, " And sleep secure ; his dreadful...would torment me " With cruel expectation ! Yet one doubt " Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die ;3 " Lest that pure breath of life, the spirit of man,... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 564 pages
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 | John Milton - 1850 - 302 pages
...out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet 77S Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap...his dreadful voice no more Would thunder in my ears 1 No fear of worse 780 To me and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expectation ! Yet one... | |
 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentenee, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap ! There I should rest, And sleep seeure; his dreadful voiee' no more \ w From my elay. See Isaiah's animated expostulation, xiv. 9 :... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
