 | 1868 - 512 Seiten
...which, like a taper, casts a shadow around itself, but shines with silvery light on everything around! " Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long. E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Gannett - 1869 - 86 Seiten
...active life; and at last, the euthanasia which kind Providence sometimes vouchsafes closed the scene.* " Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long, Even wondered at because he dropt no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him for fourscore years ; Yet freshly... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 Seiten
...give. Aurengzebe. Act iv. Sc. I. His hair just grizzled As in a green old age. (Edipus. Act iii. Sc. i. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long ; Even wondered at, because he dropt no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 Seiten
...marks the natural vein of Dryden. One cannot help applying the passage to the late Mr. Quincy: — " Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long, E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 Seiten
...marks the natural vein of Dryden. One cannot help applying the passage to the late Mr. Quincy . — " Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long, E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet freshly... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1870 - 802 Seiten
...pleasures are. Ibid. Act ¡v. Se. I. His hair just grizzled As in a green old age. ŒJipus. Act iii. Se. i. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long ; Even wondered at, because he dropt no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet... | |
 | Epitaphiana - 1873 - 214 Seiten
...209. From High Wycombe Churchyard. The following- lines are on MR. THOMAS ALDRIDGE, aged 90 years :— Of no distemper, Of no blast he died ; But fell Like autumn fruit, That's mellowed long, Providence seemed to wind him up For fourscore years ; yet ran he on Nine winters... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1874 - 412 Seiten
...somewhere between the loftier peaks of inspiration and the plain of every-day life. — Lowell. 42. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long, E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1874 - 400 Seiten
...marks the natural vein of Dryden. One cannot help applying the passage to the late Mr. Quincy : — " Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long, E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 376 Seiten
...as that described by Dryden two hundred years ago is now becoming more and more phenomenal : — " Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long, Even wondered at because he dropped no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet... | |
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of April, in the 73d year of his age, surrounded by those who loved and respected him. It was a beautiful and fitting close to a long and useful life. " Of no distemper, of no blast, he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long." The funeral... 
