| Religion - 1860 - 1002 pages
...true, my friends, we have nothing to regret, nothing to mourn, but our own loss, our own bereavement. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." And now, beloved hearers, what is the lesson which we are to learn from this solemn dispensation ?... | |
| Edward Everett - 1860 - 28 pages
...true, my friends, we have nothing to regret, nothing to mourn, but our own loss, our own bereavement. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." And now, beloved hearers, what is the lesson which we are to learn from this solemn dispensation? Is... | |
| William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney - Blind - 1860 - 384 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...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;... | |
| Massachusetts. Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew) - 1862 - 1020 pages
...up their dead. And thus shall the Capitol itself become for every soldier-son of ours, a monument. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. »**.*»*** Then plant it ronnd with shade Of laurel ever green, and branching palm, With all his trophies... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1863 - 646 pages
...confidently believe) whatever stain of imperfection he had, through misguided enthusiasm, contracted. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." Upon this portion of his history the documents discovered by Professor Villari have thrown much additional... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...Israel 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...and fair, and what may quiet us in a death so noble. 841 Let us go find the body where it lies soaked in his enemies' blood, and from the stream with lavers... | |
| Howard Payson Arnold - 1864 - 360 pages
...never-failing waters an emblem of his own deathless fame. Surely his death and sepulture were fitting. " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." Two miles from Fliielen is Altorf, where Tell shot his shaft of freedom at the apple on his son's head.... | |
| John Milton - 1864 - 584 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...was feared, But favouring and assisting to the end. 1720 Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt ; Dispraise,... | |
| United States. Congress - Politicians - 1865 - 48 pages
...THOMAS HOLLIDAY HICKS, and then recount the whole story of his life and death, we must in justice say, " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." Address of Mr. SMITHERS, of Delaware, Mr. SPEAKER : A good man lias been gathered unto his fathers,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 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." The Spanish musician, FBANCIS SAUNAS, who flourished in the sixteenth century, was born blind. Nevertheless,... | |
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