 Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.  Samson Agonistes - Էջ 156John Milton - 1867 - 189 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | United States. Congress (32nd, 2nd session : 1852-1853) - 1853 - 102 էջ
...greatest English poet applies to a legendary hero who also had been the stay of his country in peril : NOTHING is HERE FOR TEARS, NOTHING TO WAIL OR KNOCK...WEAKNESS, NO CONTEMPT, DISPRAISE OR BLAME : NOTHING BUT WEIL AND FAIR, AND WHAT MAY COMFORT US IN A DEATH SO NOBLE. Mr. Speaker, I move the following resolves... | |
 | 1853 - 748 էջ
...poet applies to a legendary hero• who had also been the stay of his country in peril : Nothing ia here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast...weakness, no contempt, Dispraise or blame ; nothing bnt well and fair, And what may comfort us in a death so noble. Mr. Speaker, I move the following resolves... | |
 | Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1854 - 486 էջ
...yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...contempt, Dispraise, or blame ; nothing but well and fair, 188 And then after a time to the bright seats of Heaven Returning, myself and they of whom I the Saviour... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 էջ
...all this With God not parted from him, as was fear'd, But favouring and assisting to the end. 17ao Nothing is here for tears,' nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt, 1 Emboet. Probably from the Italian "emboscare," to enclose in a thicket, a« Dr. Johnson observes.... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 էջ
...would you wish me ? M. Leave die troubled streams, And live where th' rivers do, at the well head. 508. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soak'd in his enemies' blood ; and from the stream, With lavers pure, and cleansing herbs, wash off... | |
 | Cornelius Van Santvoord - 1856 - 474 էջ
...the shadow of death, entered the spiritland, and all that was mortal of Daniel Webster was no more. ' Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." He is no more, and yet he lives — lives with his great contemporaries who have preceded him by a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 էջ
...The author redeemed the man ; in the philosopher and the poet there was no weakness, no corruption. Nothing is here for tears; nothing to wail Or knock...contempt, Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. Here the writer yielded not to vitia temporis ; but combated them with might and main, with heart and... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 308 էջ
...his own blind hero; - " Samson hag quit him Like Samson, and heroically has finished A life heroic. Nothing is here for tears : nothing to wail, Or knock...contempt, 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... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 էջ
...yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was fear'd, But favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...death so noble, let us go find the body where it lies Soak'd in his enemies' blood, and from the stream, With lavers pure, and cleansing herbs, wash off... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1858 - 300 էջ
...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." One of the most ingenious and original works ever written upon the habits and natural history of insects,... | |
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