 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 fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain,...  The British Magazine and Review: Or, Universaal Miscellany of Arts, Sciences ... - Page 1371783Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed. The busy hen, by a hermit thorn that * lore, before his country's...called The ardent youth to fields of honour far Bey nvjh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure th' Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided...Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...the Eternal Master found, His single talent well employed. The busy day, the peaceful night, TTnfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers...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 freed his... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...pause nor left a void ; Aud sure the Eternal Master found, His single talent well emploved. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided...frame was 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... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Future life - 1854 - 554 pages
...either in bodily or intellectual vigour ; no warnings of the blow which was so near at hand. " The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm — his pow'rs were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh." ' During a great part of 1853 he was incessantly... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...pause nor left a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found, His single talent well employed. The tusy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided...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 freed his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...Master found The single talent well employ'd. 8 The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, unclouded, glided by ; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. 9 Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...found The single talent well employ'd. -., ~ 8 The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, unclouded, glided by ; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, ' Though now his eightieth year was nigh. \ 9 Then with no fiery, throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided...Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1866 - 486 pages
...suddenly, quietly, without pain or shock, — the sleep of life changing to the sleep of death. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided...Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no tltrobs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed... | |
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