 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...strongly speaks) might kick the beam. ROBERT BLAIR (1699-1746) From THK GRAVE 1743 While some affect2 d thou shall 5 To paint the gloomy horrors of the tomb ; Th' appointed place of rendezvous, where all These travellers... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...grave; , Legions of angels can't confine me there. ROBERT BLAIR (1699-1746) From THE GRAVE While some the spring; Cuckoo, to welcome in the spring! 1 wagered. GEORGE PEELE (166 Then- aims as various as the roads they take In journeying through life, the task be mine To paint... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...horrors of the tomb; 5 The appointed place of rendezvous, where all These travellers meet. Thy succors I implore, Eternal King! whose potent arm sustains The keys of hell and death.—The Grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: nature, appalled, • 10 Shakes off... | |
 | Einar Nylén - English literature - 1924 - 320 pages
...melankolien ytterligare intensifierats i förening med den folkliga övertrons skräckbilder: »Whilst some affect the sun, and some the shade, Some flee the...task be mine To paint the gloomy horrors of the tomb; In grim array, the grizly spectres rise, Grin horrible, and obstinately sullen Pass and repass, hush'd... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...Or pleasures, seldom reach'd, again pursu'd. 50 ROBERT BLAIR (1699-1746) FROM THE GRAVE While some mine, This which my keys in a crowd pressed and importuned...hasten the work, heighten their master his praise ! travellers meet. Thy succours I implore, Eternal King ! whose potent arm sustains The keys of hell... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...man! How had it blessed mankind, and rescued me! 1742 Robert #lair (1690-1746) THE GRAVE WHILE some affect the sun, and some the shade, Some flee the...task be mine To paint the gloomy horrors of the tomb; 5 The appointed place of rendezvous, where These travellers meet. Thy succors I implore, Eternal King!... | |
 | Albert Adam Perdeck - English literature - 1928 - 124 pages
...polite." a) The confession right at the beginning must have been distasteful to the Augustans: Whilst some affect the sun, and some the shade, Some flee the...task be mine To paint the gloomy horrors of the tomb. Yet, notwithstanding official opinion, as represented by booksellers and publishers, kept aloof, the... | |
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WHILST some affect the sun, and some the shade, Some flee the city, some the hermitage ; Their aims as various, as the roads they take In journeying through life ; — the task be mine To paint the gloomy horrors of the tomb ; Th' appointed place of rendezvous,... 
