 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 Dublin Review - Page 231edited by - 1863Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...all this With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favouring and assisting to the end. 1720 Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soaked in his enemies' blood ; and from the stream With lavers... | |
 | Howard Payson Arnold - 1864 - 360 pages
...never-failing waters an emblem of his own deathless fame. Surely his death and sepulture were fitting. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." Two miles from Fliielen is Altorf, where Tell shot his shaft of freedom at the apple on his son's head.... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...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...and fair, and what may quiet us in a death so noble. 841 Let us go find the body where it lies soaked in his enemies' blood, and from the stream with lavers... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...he says the words that for some readers have seemed to explain why the play is not a true tragedy? Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. [1721-24] Like everything else that Manoa has said in the play, this is at best a half-truth, a partial... | |
 | John Milton - Drama - 1988 - 244 pages
...happiest yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was feard, But favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soak't in his enemies blood, and from the stream With lavers... | |
 | George N. Marshall - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 260 pages
...become clarified and heightened for us? Again, take Milton's stoic stanza from "Samson Agonistes": Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Is it not the contemplation of the life so noble which calms and steadies us in this hour? The great... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...before us." Milton caught the discipline of this attitude toward death in his imitation Greek chorus: Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.*0 The struggle to contain individual sorrow in a larger meaning is pronounced "well and fair"... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breasl, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Let usgofnd the body where it lies Sok't in his enemies blood, and from the stream With laverspure... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1994 - 524 pages
...grave of the Patriot, to whom, living, his own self-respect Sufficed alike for Motive and Ileward. " Nothing is here for Tears, nothing to wail Or knock...nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a life so noble." This Stone Is erected by his daughter, Caroline Carson. Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth... | |
 | Charles W. Durham, Kristin Pruitt McColgan - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 316 pages
...any certainty that he will not undermine it with an impetuous act. Manoa comforts the chorus, saying: Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what might quiet us in a death so noble. (1721-24) The Danites want some peace and quiet after the riot... | |
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