| Presidents - 1846 - 430 pages
...of American sympathy sends up from our Jackson's bed of death its paean of mournful exultation — " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." The valley of the Mississippi, the theatre of his youthful valour and his meridian renown — the sanctuary... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - Biography - 1846 - 392 pages
...may truly say, " Samson hath quit himself Like Samson, and heroically hath finished A life heroic. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...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
...and happiest yet, all this With God not parted from him, — But favoring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us, in a death so noble." •i HE rouowcra B THI OBDEB or rta Sumou ON OCCASION or IBI DEUTIBT or tea rOEEGOISO Kl'LUUY. (Tommonuu-alll)... | |
| John Stoughton - Puritans - 1848 - 356 pages
...of the House of Lords. t See Ilallum's Middle Ages, vol. ip 448. CHAPTER V. THE BRAVE LORD BROOKE. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...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... | |
| Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was fear'd, But favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soak'd in his enemies' blood; and from the stream With lavers pure, and cleansing herbs, wash off The... | |
| William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 110 pages
...best and happiest yet, all this, With God not parted from him, But favoring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...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. But when is death... | |
| Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...and happiest yet, all this With God not parted from him, — But favoring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...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 call,... | |
| John Stoughton - Puritans - 1850 - 414 pages
...Saviour's, Southwark. * See Hallam's Middle Ages, vol. ip 488. CHAPTER V. THE BRAVE LORD BROOKE. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...weakness, no contempt, Dispraise or blame, nothing bnt well and fair." MILTON, Samson Agonistes. AMONG the beautiful rivers that run through the heart... | |
| William James E. Bennett - 1850 - 390 pages
...Euseb. v, 2. s Ibid. CHAPTER II. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast : . Nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." SAMSON ACONISTES. IRENJEUS SUCCEEDS POTHINUS AS BISHOP OF LYONS — HIS EPISCOPAL LABORS — WRITES... | |
| 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 With... | |
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