 | Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1854 - 486 pages
...Israel Honour hath lefi and freedom, let but them Find courage to lay hold on this occasion ; To himself and father's house eternal fame : And, which is best...contempt, Dispraise, or blame ; nothing but well and fair, 188 And then after a time to the bright seats of Heaven Returning, myself and they of whom I the Saviour... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...farm-house fowls. To himself and father's house eternal fame; Find courage to lay hold on this occasion; And which is best and happiest yet, all this With...the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, And... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...Honour hath left, and freedom, let but them Find courage to lay hold on this occasion ; To himself and father's house eternal fame ; And, which is best...him, as was feared, But favouring and assisting to tho end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Death notices - 1859 - 662 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. MR. APPLETON, of Maine. Mr. SPEAKER : I do not know that I ought... | |
 | 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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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. 
