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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. "
The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors - Page 481
by John Milton - 1826
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life ...

John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favouring and assisting to tho end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soaked in his enemies' blood ; and from the stream, With lavers pure, and cleansing herbs, wash off...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...all this With God not parted from him, as was fear'd, But favouring and assisting to the end. 17ao Nothing is here for tears,' nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt, 1 Emboet. Probably from the Italian "emboscare," to enclose in a thicket, a« Dr. Johnson observes....
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Palæstra musarum; or, Materials for translation into Greek verse, selected ...

Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...would you wish me ? M. Leave die troubled streams, And live where th' rivers do, at the well head. 508. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soak'd in his enemies' blood ; and from the stream, With lavers pure, and cleansing herbs, wash off...
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Discourses on Special Occasions, and Miscellaneous Papers :

Cornelius Van Santvoord - American essays - 1856 - 474 pages
...the shadow of death, entered the spiritland, and all that was mortal of Daniel Webster was no more. ' Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." He is no more, and yet he lives — lives with his great contemporaries who have preceded him by a...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...The author redeemed the man ; in the philosopher and the poet there was no weakness, no corruption. Nothing is here for tears; nothing to wail Or knock...contempt, Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. Here the writer yielded not to vitia temporis ; but combated them with might and main, with heart and...
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The Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-bags, and Other Lectures

William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1857 - 308 pages
...his own blind hero; - " Samson hag quit him Like Samson, and heroically has finished A life heroic. Nothing is here for tears : nothing to wail, Or knock...contempt, Dispraise or blame ; nothing but well and fair." As we look around upon the strife of little souls, and mark the petty prizes for which they are contending...
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Select specimens of the English poets, ed. by A. De Vere

Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was fear'd, 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'd in his enemies' blood, and from the stream, With lavers pure, and cleansing herbs, wash off...
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Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Its Pleasures and Rewards ..., Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1858 - 300 pages
...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." One of the most ingenious and original works ever written upon the habits and natural history of insects,...
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The Pioneer Preacher, Or, Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-bags, and Other Lectures

William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1858 - 314 pages
...his own blind hero; • "Samson has quit him Like Samson, and heroically has finished A life heroic. Nothing is here for tears: nothing to wail, Or knock...contempt, Dispraise or blame; nothing but well and fair." As we look around upon the strife of little souls, and mark the petty prizes for which they are contending...
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The Life, Speeches and Memorials of Daniel Webster ...

Daniel Webster, Samuel M. Smucker - 1859 - 568 pages
...greatest English poet applies to a legendary hero who also had been the stay of his country in peril : " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...or blame : nothing but well and fair, And what may comfort us in a death so noble." VII. I MR. APPLETON, of Maine. Mr. SPEAKER : I do not know that I...
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