 The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And...  Addresses and Messages to the General Court, Proclamations, Official ... - Page 71by Massachusetts. Governor - 1861Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. THK VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, IN IMITATION OF THI TENTH SATIRE Of JUVENAL. LET observation, with extensive... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...firm — his powers were bright, Tho' now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. GRAY. Born in 1716— Died in 1771. Mr. Gray was accounted in his time, according to Dr. Johnson, the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pages
...firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. " Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chnin, And freed his soul the nearest way '." " TO MRS. STRAHAN. " 4th February, 1783. " DEAR MADAM,... | |
 | Literature - 1859 - 868 pages
...respect and affection as could well accompany any human career, — " Then, with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed liis soul the nearest way." It is not for me, gentlemen, to attempt any delineation of his character,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold г~ "'1л**""а nf л*.*«.. re now so numerous and promising that he deemed them infallible. For som WILLIAM COLLINS. None of our poets have lived more under the ' skiey influences' of imagination than... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay. Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. XII. * OLD POETS. ROBERT HERRICK GEORGE WITHER. NOTHING seems stranger in the critics of the last century... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 pages
...firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs cf fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way." In one of Johnson's registers of this year, there occurs the following curious passage : " Jan. 20.... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Extracts from the Vanity of human Wishes. "Enlarge my life with multitude of days!" In health, in sickness,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...firm, his powers were bright, Though now liis eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay ; Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. i. 3 XII. OLD POETS. EGBERT HERBICK — GEORGE WITHERS. NOTHING seems stranger in the critics of the... | |
 | 1854 - 590 pages
...and unanticipated in this instance was the coming of the Son of man. " Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way." The immediate cause of death is supposed to have been disease of the heart. On the following Friday... | |
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