 What if some little pain the passage have, That makes frail flesh to fear the bitter wave? Is not short pain well borne, that brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave? Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death...  The Highland inn - Page 266by Highland inn - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...some little pain the passage have, That makes frail flesh to fear the bitter wave ? Is not short pain well borne, that brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave ? Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas. Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please. Hie knight much... | |
 | England - 1866 - 830 pages
...pain the passage have, That makes frail flesh to fear the bitter wave ? Is not short pain well born that brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave ? Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please.' XDL " The knight... | |
 | English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...passage have, Which makes frail flesh to fear the bitter wave ; Is not short pain well borne ,which brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave ? Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Night after day, death after life doth greatly please." — SPENSER.... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...some little pain the passage have That makes frail flesh to dread the bitter wave ? Is not short pain well borne that brings long ease And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave ? Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, doth greatly please." Bat the Puritan... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1834 - 300 pages
...Eustace and Honoria set out on their tour, in company with Miss Vyvyan. CHAPTER XVIII. Is not short pain well borne, that brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in qniet grave ? SPENSER. OF the discoveries which our hero made in this excursion, and the reflections... | |
 | Scottish literature - 1839 - 392 pages
...if some little paynethe passage have, That makes frail flesh to fear the bitter wave ? Is not abort payne well borne that brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave ?"* To such delusive reasonings had she listened, until the delirium Ihey induced had overpowered her... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...some little pain the passage gave, That makes frail flesh to fear the bitter wave ; Is not short pain well borne, that brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave : Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please." * Uneath, below.... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 262 pages
...some little pain the passage gave, That makes frail flesh to fear the bitter wave ; Is not short pain well borne, that brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave : Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please." XL. The knight... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...chang'd her course. Is not short payne well horne that brings long ease, And lays the soni to rest in quiet grave ? * Sleep a'fter toyle, port after stormy seas, Ease after warre, death after life, doth greatly please," i But If a man who has met with calamities, and has... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...some little pain the passage have, That make frail flesh to fear the bitter wave ? Is not short pain well borne, that brings long ease. And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave 1 Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, doth greatly please."... | |
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