 | Clara Lucas Balfour - Biography - 1846 - 392 pages
...hath quit himself Like Samson, and heroically hath finished A life heroic. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock the breast; no weakness,...contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair." Milton's great work is usually thought, from its length, the elevation of its style, and the sublimity... | |
 | Edward Everett - Bible - 1848 - 586 pages
...the awful presence of his Father, and our Father, his God, and our God! " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail '• Or knock the breast; no weakness,...nothing but well and fair, " And what may quiet us in a death so noble." Shall we then mourn the loss which our country has sustained? Such is not my feeling.... | |
 | John Stoughton - Puritans - 1848 - 356 pages
...Ilallum's Middle Ages, vol. ip 448. CHAPTER V. THE BRAVE LORD BROOKE. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness,...contempt, Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair." MILTON, Samson Agouistes. AMONG the beautiful rivers that run through the heart of old England, there... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 116 pages
...this, With God not parted from him, But favoring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock the breast ; no weakness,...nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us, in a death so noble." He was happy in the circumstances of his death : it came with comparative suddenness.... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...parted from him, as was fear'd, But favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness,...nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soak'd in his enemies' blood; and from the... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...With God not parted from him, — But favoring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock the breast; no weakness,...nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us, in a death BO noble." THE CAMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL.* MAT rr PLEASE TOUR HONOR : I RISE, in obedience to your... | |
 | John Stoughton - Puritans - 1850 - 414 pages
...See Hallam's Middle Ages, vol. ip 488. CHAPTER V. THE BRAVE LORD BROOKE. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise or blame, nothing bnt well and fair." MILTON, Samson Agonistes. AMONG the beautiful rivers that run through the heart... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...; in the philosopher and the poet there was no weakness, no corruption. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness,...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 508 pages
...Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breaft, no weaknefs, no contempt, Difpraife, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death fo noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Sok't in his enemies blood, and from the ftream... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...as was fear'd, But favoring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail 3r ll the wonders of her face: Sees by degrees a purer...And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy a death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soak'd in his enemies' blood ; and from the... | |
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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... 
