 | Cornelius Van Santvoord - 1856 - 474 Seiten
...the shadow of death, entered the spiritland, and all that was mortal of Daniel Webster was no more. ' Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." He is no more, and yet he lives — lives with his great contemporaries who have preceded him by a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 Seiten
...The author redeemed the man ; in the philosopher and the poet there was no weakness, no corruption. Nothing is here for tears; nothing to wail Or knock...contempt, Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. Here the writer yielded not to vitia temporis ; but combated them with might and main, with heart and... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 308 Seiten
...his own blind hero; - " Samson hag quit him Like Samson, and heroically has finished A life heroic. Nothing is here for tears : nothing to wail, Or knock...contempt, Dispraise or blame ; nothing but well and fair." As we look around upon the strife of little souls, and mark the petty prizes for which they are contending... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1858 - 264 Seiten
...ease, quin castra circumvallaturi sint,—Lrvy. DK. INGRAM. TO BE TRANSLATED INTO GREEK TRAGIC IAMBICS. Let us go find the body where it lies Soak'd in his...off The clotted gore. I with what speed the while Will send for all my kindred, all my friends, To feteh him hence, and solemnly attend With silent obsequy... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1858 - 300 Seiten
...his blindness : . " Samson hath quit himself Like Samson, and heroically hath finished A life heroic. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...contempt, Dispraise or blame ; nothing but well and fair." One of the most ingenious and original works ever written upon the habits and natural history of insects,... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 Seiten
...his own blind hero; • "Samson has quit him Like Samson, and heroically has finished A life heroic. Nothing is here for tears: nothing to wail, Or knock...contempt, Dispraise or blame; nothing but well and fair." As we look around upon the strife of little souls, and mark the petty prizes for which they are contending... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Samuel M. Smucker - 1859 - 568 Seiten
...greatest English poet applies to a legendary hero who also had been the stay of his country in peril : " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...or blame : nothing but well and fair, And what may comfort us in a death so noble." VII. I MR. APPLETON, of Maine. Mr. SPEAKER : I do not know that I... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1859 - 662 Seiten
...greatest English poet applies to a legendary hero who also had been the stay of his country in peril : " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...or blame : nothing but well and fair, And what may comfort us in a death so noble." VII. MR. APPLETON, of Maine. Mr. SPEAKER : I do not know that I ought... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 574 Seiten
...yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...death so noble. Let us go find the body, where it fies Soaked in his enemies' blood ; and from the stream With lavers pure, and cleansing herbs, wash... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1860 - 28 Seiten
...true, my friends, we have nothing to regret, nothing to mourn, but our own loss, our own bereavement. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." And now, beloved hearers, what is the lesson which we are to learn from this solemn dispensation? Is... | |
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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. 
