 | Howard Payson Arnold - 1864 - 360 oldal
...never-failing waters an emblem of his own deathless fame. Surely his death and sepulture were fitting. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." Two miles from Fliielen is Altorf, where Tell shot his shaft of freedom at the apple on his son's head.... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1865 - 48 oldal
...THOMAS HOLLIDAY HICKS, and then recount the whole story of his life and death, we must in justice say, " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." Address of Mr. SMITHERS, of Delaware, Mr. SPEAKER : A good man lias been gathered unto his fathers,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 oldal
...his blindness : — 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." The Spanish musician, FBANCIS SAUNAS, who flourished in the sixteenth century, was born blind. Nevertheless,... | |
 | 1866 - 376 oldal
...all this With God not parted from him, as was fear'd, But favouring and assisting to the end. irai Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies "» I7OO imJojf] Sandy's Psalms, p. 65. 'Lord! as the hart imbost with heat.' Quarles's Emblems, p.... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 oldal
...he says the words that for some readers have seemed to explain why the play is not a true tragedy? Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. [1721-24] Like everything else that Manoa has said in the play, this is at best a half-truth, a partial... | |
 | John Milton - 1988 - 244 oldal
...happiest yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was feard, 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't in his enemies blood, and from the stream With lavers pure and cleansing herbs wash off The... | |
 | George N. Marshall - 1988 - 260 oldal
...become clarified and heightened for us? Again, take Milton's stoic stanza from "Samson Agonistes": Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Is it not the contemplation of the life so noble which calms and steadies us in this hour? The great... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1992 - 324 oldal
...before us." Milton caught the discipline of this attitude toward death in his imitation Greek chorus: Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.*0 The struggle to contain individual sorrow in a larger meaning is pronounced "well and fair"... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 oldal
...favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breasl, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Let usgofnd the body where it lies Sok't in his enemies blood, and from the stream With laverspure and... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1994 - 524 oldal
...grave of the Patriot, to whom, living, his own self-respect Sufficed alike for Motive and Ileward. " Nothing is here for Tears, nothing to wail Or knock...nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a life so noble." This Stone Is erected by his daughter, Caroline Carson. Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth... | |
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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. 
