 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 էջ
...ease. DRYDEN. Thus then my loved Euryalus appears; He looks the prop of my declining years. DRYDEN. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long; Even wonder'd at, because he dropt no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 էջ
...And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. n. DRYDEN — The Spanish Friar. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 64. Pt. I . Act III. Sc. I. L. 159. BORROWING. Great collections of book mellow'd long. o. DRYDEN— (Edipus. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 266. Xerxes the great did die ; And so must... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - 1896 - 636 էջ
...hay gives it a sweet and wholesome odor. It soweth here with toil and care But the of love is there. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn that mellowed long. HATRED (page 198). applied to persons ? as applied to things ? 3. What is malice?... | |
 | 1897 - 436 էջ
...a few weeks of being 87 years old, — the last but two of his college class of fifty-four members. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like...fruit that mellowed long, E'en wondered at because it falls no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for four-score years, Yet freshly ran he on seven winters... | |
 | Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - 1897 - 476 էջ
...a few weeks of being 87 years old, — the last but two of his college class of fifty-four members. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like...fruit that mellowed long, E'en wondered at because it falls no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for four-score years, Yet freshly ran he on seven winters... | |
 | 1897 - 424 էջ
...a few weeks of being 87 years old, — the last but two of his college class of fifty-four members. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like...fruit that mellowed long, E'en wondered at because it falls no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for four-score years, Yet freshly ran he on seven winters... | |
 | John Levering - 1897 - 1128 էջ
...at the top, as an oak, he died. His contemporary, Dryden, exemplified the going out in his tribute : "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 four score years, Yet... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 էջ
...sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can. — Cotvper: ' Conversation.* * AGE 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 seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 էջ
...sensible, and well-bred nun Will not affront me, and no other can. — Cowper: ' Conversation.* AGE Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long, Even wondered at because he dropt no sooner ; Pate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet... | |
 | Andrew Webster Archibald - 1901 - 430 էջ
...rest. The lines of Dryden, which he had been heard to quote, applied most beautifully to himself: " 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 ;... | |
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E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. 
