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" Thou givest salvation even for alms ; Not with a bribed lawyer's palms. And this is mine eternal plea To Him that made heaven, earth, and sea, That, since my flesh must die so soon, And want a head to dine next noon, Just at the stroke, when my veins... "
Œuvres: Opuscules 26-29 - Page 94
by Lucian (of Samosata.) - 1812
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The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and ..., Volume 2

Sir Walter Raleigh - British Guiana - 1751 - 418 pages
...fpready Set on my Soul an everlafting Head. Then am I ready, like a Palmer fit, To tread thofe bleft Paths which before I writ. Of Death and Judgment, Heaven and Hell ; Who oft doth think, muft needs die well. Verfes found in bis Eible in tke Gatehoufe at Weft-- . . minfter. EVen...
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The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, Knt, Volume 2

Arthur Cayley - 1806 - 480 pages
...eternal pica . To him that made heav'n, earth, and sea; That, since my flesh must die so soon, And want a head to dine next noon, Just at the stroke, when...paths which before I writ. Of death and judgment, heav'n and hell, Who oft doth think, must needs die well. " His imagination, filled with the forms...
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The Annual Review and History of Literature, Volume 4

Books - 1806 - 924 pages
...eternal plea To him that made heav'n, earth, and sea; That, since my flesh must die so soon, And want a head to dine next noon, Just at the stroke, when...veins start and spread. Set on my soul an everlasting hoad! .Then am 1 ready, like a palmer fit, To trend those bk'ss'd paths which before I writ. Of death...
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Omniana, Or Horæ Otiosiores ...

Robert Southey - 1812 - 364 pages
...eternal plea To him that made heaven- earth, and gea } That since my flesh must die so soon, And v. ant a head to dine next noon, Just at the stroke,...spread, Set on my soul an everlasting head ! Then am 1 ready, like a palmer fit, To tread those bles/d paths which before 1 writ. Of death and judgment,...
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Omniana: Or Horae Otiosiores, Volume 1

Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1812 - 362 pages
...sea ; That since my flesh must die so soon, And'want ahead todine next noon, Jnst at the stroke, wuen my veins start and spread, Set on my soul an everlasting head ! Then am I ready, like a palmer lit, To tread those bless'd paths which before 1 v, Hi. Of death and judgment, heaven and hell, Who...
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The Album, Volumes 1-2

1822 - 962 pages
...Earth, and Sea, That since my flesh must die so soon, And want a head to dine next noon, Just at that stroke, when my veins start and spread, Set on my...death and judgment, Heaven and Hell, Who oft doth think must needs die well ! To die firmly, is often the test only of pride and resolution. The power...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 5

Liberalism (Religion) - 1810 - 692 pages
...that made hcav'n, earth and sea, That since my flesh must die so soon, And want a head to dine ncit noon, Just at the stroke when my veins start and spread,...Set on my soul an everlasting head. Then am I ready, liks a palm.-r fit, To tread those paths of which before I writ. . Jf Of death and judgment, heav'n...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 97

English essays - 1827 - 724 pages
...eternal plea, To him that made Heaven, earth, nud sea, That simre my flesh must dye so soon, And want a head to dine next noon, Just at the stroke, when...start and spread, Set on my soul an everlasting head. [XCT a small tower nine feet wide within at the west end, having a trefoil window and a shield over...
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The History of the Rise and Progress of the United States of North ..., Volume 1

James Grahame - United States - 1827 - 562 pages
...calmer contemplation of death was never evinced than in the passage where he prays that Heaven would *' Just at the stroke — when my veins start and spread Set on my soul an everlasting head." It is pleasing to observe how the earlier historians of America claim kindred between him and their...
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Sacred Specimens: Selected from the Early English Poets ; with Prefatory Verses

John Mitford - English poetry - 1827 - 360 pages
...accuser bought or sold. May I be ready, like a palmer fit, To tread those blessed paths which erst I writ ! Of death and judgment, heaven and hell, Who oft doth think, must needs die well ! D 2 35 HYMN. RISE, oh my soul, with thy desires to heaven, And with divinest...
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