| English poetry - 1873 - 390 oldal
...flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging wings ; New sorrow rises as the day returns, A mother sickens, or a daughter mourns ; Now kindred merit...claims a tear ; Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Stills drops some joy from withering life away ; New forms arise, and different views engage, Superfluous... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1875 - 558 oldal
...space of four years. In no period of its history, equally short, have such shining marks been found. " Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated...claims a tear; Year chases year, decay pursues decay, StiU drops some joy from withering life away." 1 Scholarship, Jurisprudence, Art, Humanity, each is... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 76 oldal
...its end? Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging wings; 300 New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens,...claims a tear. Year chases year, decay pursues decay, 305 Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff rent views engage, Superfluous... | |
| Language - 1877 - 316 oldal
...Wisdom's prudent choice. — Granger. Mourning Bride ... (Unfortunate attachment. \ I have lost all. Year chases year, decay pursues decay. Still drops some joy from withering life away.-^Johnson. Mouse-eared Chickweed ... Ingenuous simplicity. In this the art of living lies, To... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1877 - 234 oldal
...Conf. Johnson's 'Vanity of Human Wishes : ' — ' A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns.' And— ' Now kindred merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated friendship claims a tear.' Very different are the sentiments here from those of Wordsworth: — ' Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 oldal
...end : Yet even on this her load misfortune fling?. To press the weary minutes' flagging игтга : New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter monrns ; Now kindred merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated friendship claims a tear ; Year chases... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 oldal
...The word does not seem to have established itself in this sense. P. 367, 1. 8. / rest against a tree. 'New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens...sable bier, Now lacerated friendship claims a tear.' Vanity of Human Wishes, 301. P. 372, 1. 3. condition. Cf. p. 342, 1. 31, and note. P. 373, 1. II. I... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 oldal
[ Sajnáljuk, az oldal tartalma korlátozott hozzáférésű. ] | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 oldal
...misfortune flings, To press the weary minute's flagging wings; New sorrow rises as the day returns, A eister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred merit fills...sable bier. Now lacerated friendship claims a tear. Tear chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from withering life away; New forma arise,... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1881 - 510 oldal
...shall wish its end ? Yet even on this her load misfortune flings To press the weary minutes' flagging wings; New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns j Now kindred merit fills the sable bier. Now lacerated friendship claims a tear; Year chases year,... | |
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