 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 pages
...sentence, and be earth Insensible 1 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...sentenee, and be earth Insensible I how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap! there should I rest And sleep secure ; his dreadful voice no more...To me and to my off-spring, would torment me With erucl expeetation. No. 357.] SPECTATOR. 147 This whole speech is full of the like emotion, arid varied... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...sentence, and be earth As in my mother's lap! there I should rest Insensible ! how glad would lay me down And sleep secure : his dreadful voice no more Would...of worse To me and to my offspring would torment me "W1th cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die;1 Lest that pure breath... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible 1 How glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap...rest, And sleep secure ; his dreadful voice ' no more w From my clay. See Isaiah's animated expostulation, xiv. 9 : — " Shall the clay say to him that... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...lengthened 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. Milton's Paradise Lou Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; despasr Tended the siek busiest... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 pages
...sentence, and be earth Insensible I how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lapt 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 704 pages
...mother's lap! there should I rest And sleep secure ; his dreadful voice no more Would thunder in ray ears, no fear of worse To me and to my 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 - 1857 - 664 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 !...no more Would thunder in my ears; no fear of worse With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die ; i Lest that pure breath... | |
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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... 
