 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
 | Blanford Parker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 282 pages
...moment of The Vanity of Human Wishes, but with even more pointed emotion: Then with no throbbing fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. ("On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet," 33-36) This is the extraordinary moment, when the soul, released... | |
 | Phillip L. Berman - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 228 pages
...— San Juan Capistrano Indians of California Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradation of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. — Samuel Johnson I have lost many loved ones in my life, yet I often feel they've never really left... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...5120 Boswell - Life (on the death of Mr Levett) Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradatlons rom trivial things. 8938 5121 Boswell - Life (of Mr Dudley Long) Mr Long's character is very short. It is nothing. He fills... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 2000 - 514 pages
...Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Then with no throbbing fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And forced his soul the nearest way. MATTHEW 25:30-25:33 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer... | |
 | Richard Jacobs - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 504 pages
...firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbbing fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at...the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. Next year, on another visit when Johnson was very ill, Boswell records that he repeated to me his verses... | |
 | Chapman Brothers - Stark County (Ohio) - 2002 - 446 pages
...surrounded by the objects of his life-long care and love, he paused a moment and fell asleep forever. "No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain." "jr^rilKN SNYPKR is a practical nnd wide||i-<f awake member of the farming comintinttv AV of Bethlehem,... | |
 | Sarah Jordan - History - 2003 - 308 pages
...Tho' now his eightieth year -was nigh. Then with no throbbing fiery pain, No cold gradations of delay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And free'd his soul the nearest way. 121 Levet, though his toil supplied only his modest daily wants, though his virtues were narrow and... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 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. SAMUEL JOHNSON ENGLISH (1709-1784) Work without Hope All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair... | |
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