 O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched...  The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers - Side 81af Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 451 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1878 - 604 sider
...beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. Oh, eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! Whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 538 sider
...obtained worthy ends and expectations, the sweetest canticle is ' Nunc Dimittis.' " — Lord Bacon. " O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the... | |
 | 1879 - 996 sider
...exception to the doings of that levelling power which Sir Walter Raleigh so well apostrophised, "O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world has flattered, thou alone hast cast down and despised.... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1880 - 404 sider
...observators." Death reigns over the peoples of the past, and we must fain be satisfied to cry with Raleigh : " 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 sider
...behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit;' but who believes it till Death tells it us? . . . O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and, whom all the world hath nattered, thou only hast cast out of the... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 sider
...shall fall off, her limbs wither, and a rabble of barbarous nations enter the field and cut her down. O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of all... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 244 sider
...WALTER RALEIGH'S tribute to Death in his History of The World must be included in our cameos — "O eloquent, just and mighty Death! Whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; What none hath dared, thou hast done; And whom all the world flattered thou only hast cast out of the world and... | |
 | William H. Rueckert - 1969 - 543 sider
...ultimate failure of communication, is nevertheless, being a mode of conduct, in the realm of speech ("O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded. . . .")76 And it must not be forgotten, Death being in the realm of speech, that men may die, for the... | |
 | J. S. Whale - 1976 - 204 sider
...last magnificent sentence of his unfinished History of the World, written there in the Tower : ' O eloquent, just and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1914 - 276 sider
...generally pedestrian prison-task, The History of the World, and takes leave of life with a superb gesture : 0 eloquent, just and mighty death ! whom none , could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath nattered, thou only hast cast out of the world... | |
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