...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. Like Alexander Pope (1688-1744), who had spoken of "This long disease, my life', Johnson reworks the...

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...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 once the vital chain, And forced his soul the nearest way. MATTHEW 25:30-33 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness:...

...remarks on that occasion, is appropriate to the present case : " Then with no fiery, throbbing paio, No cold gradations of decay ; Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his aoul the nearest way." Mr. Deblois was tall in person, remarkably well developed, and of commanding...

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...freedom from temporal prison. As the allusion to Matthew denotes, the Eternal Master also rewards Levet: "Death broke at once the vital chain, / And free'd his soul the nearest way" (35-36) nearer to God, who welcomes Levet as a good and faithful servant who has entered the far country...

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...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...