 Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.  The Harvard Classics - Page 4581909Full view - About this book
 | John White Chadwick - 1878 - 342 pages
...which might be the truthful epitaph of men and women whom you and I have personally known and loved. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair And what may quiet us in a death so noble." Will the story of Samson be any less suggestive to the poet, when he is told that his place among the... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Poets, English - 1879 - 192 pages
...purified Samson's weakness ; on the honour and freedom left to Israel ; on God with his son in death — " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." And the final picture of his grave leads us, after all this pity and terror, into a world of still... | |
 | New national reading books - 1880 - 362 pages
...revenged ; hath left them years of mourning, And lamentation to the sons of Caphtor Through all Philistine bounds, to Israel Honour hath left, and freedom ;...contempt, Dispraise or blame ; nothing but well and fair, 80. And what may quiet us in a death so noble. MILTON'S Samson Agonistcs. NON-HISTORICAL STORIES FOUND... | |
 | John Milton - 1880 - 628 pages
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 | James Hain Friswell - Conduct of life - 1880 - 344 pages
...eternal fame ; And, which is best and happiest yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was fear'd, But favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. It is significant that Milton, in his blindness, turned to the history of Samson to illustrate his... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - Autographs - 1880 - 1110 pages
...summis attenuat Deus, •» i=.j * -9 •5- til * -Z-f -J LECTURE IV. The Martyrs of Congregationalism. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Milton, Samson Agonistes, Plures cfficimur, quoties metimur a vobis : semen est sanguis Christianorum.... | |
 | James M. Trotter - African American composers - 1878 - 560 pages
...further than to place her name in the honorable list of those of whom Milton so eloquently says. — "Nothing is here for tears; nothing to wail, Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." VI. THE "LUCA FAMILY," VOCALISTS AND INSTRUMENTALISTS. 11 God Bent his singers upon earth With songs... | |
 | John Milton - 1880 - 340 pages
...courage to lay hold on this occasion ; To himself and father's house eternal fame ; And, which is hest and happiest yet, all this With God not parted from...Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the hreast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or hlame, nothing hut well and fair, And what may quiet... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 894 pages
...eternal fame ; And, which is best and happiest yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was fear'd, But favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is...death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soak'd in his enemies' blood, and from the stream With lavers pure and cleansing herbs wash off 1731... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1881 - 892 pages
...Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl. Line 1692. Nothing is Bere for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. COM US. Line 1721. Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call Earth. Line 5. That golden... | |
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