 The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain,...  The life of Dr. Samuel Johnson - Seite 555von Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 Seiten
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no throbs cf fiery pain, No... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 Seiten
...pause nor left a void ; Aud sure the Eternal Master found, His single talent well emploved. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now liis eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 Seiten
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure th' Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1854 - 554 Seiten
...either in bodily or intellectual vigour ; no warnings of the blow which was so near at hand. " The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided...were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh." ' During a great part of 1853 he was incessantly engaged in literary correspondence ; and he published... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 Seiten
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold... | |
 | 1866 - 486 Seiten
...suddenly, quietly, without pain or shock, — the sleep of life changing to the sleep of death. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by : His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no tltrobs of fiery pain, No... | |
 | 1869 - 398 Seiten
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd. 4 The buey day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year wa.s nigh. " Then, with no throbs of flery pain,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 Seiten
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure th' Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by, His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then, with no fiery, throbbing pain, No... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 Seiten
...pause, nor left a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed. The busy day — the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was fIrm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 Seiten
...pause nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found, His single talent well employed. The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold... | |
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