 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - 2001 - 282 էջ
...unworthy" (SA, 1423-4)—are answered antiphonally in the final assessments of his "noble" death by Manoa ("no weakness, no contempt, / Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair" [1722—23]) and the Chorus ("All is best" [1745]). To judge by the carefully couched words of Andrew... | |
 | George Levine - 2010 - 339 էջ
...like tragic realism, with a conclusion that invokes the painful meaningfulness of Samson Agonistes — "nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." The narrative ends in death, but death still has the nobility of the quest that marks all narratives... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 էջ
...all this With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favouring and assisting to the end. 1720 Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soaked in his enemies' blood, and from the stream With lavers... | |
 | Norman Podhoretz - 2004 - 498 էջ
...neoconservative battalions and their friends and heirs, I would say, still borrowing from Samson Agonistes, that Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair And what may quiet us in a death so noble. But perhaps the tragic Miltonic mode is too elevated for the occasion at hand. In addressing the immediate... | |
 | Joseph Gerson Mayer - 2004 - 278 էջ
...specific in Manoa's final speech, where he means to represent his son's end as unqualifiedly heroic. nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soak't in his enemies' blood, and from the stream With lavers... | |
 | Bernard Bosanquet - 2005 - 521 էջ
...but more like that of the Miltonic Manoa : " Nothing is here for texts, nothing to wail Or knock O^e breast ; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame ; nothing but well and fail " ; The content of the monologue is — if we may quote Goethe with & change — -** Illusion... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 138 էջ
...happiest yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was feard, But favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Sok't in his enemies blood, and from the stream With lavers pure... | |
 | George Eliot - 2006 - 286 էջ
...But it was some hours before he had ceased to breathe, with Mirah's and Deronda's arms around him. "Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." www.ReadHowYouWant.com You can buy our Large Type and EasyRead books from ourwww.ReadHowYouWant.com... | |
 | Walter S. H. Lim - 2006 - 314 էջ
...happiest yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was fear'd, But favoring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. (SA 1708-24) Like many other biblical characters, the folkloric figure of Samson has been appropriated... | |
 | Jon Lauck - 2007 - 356 էջ
...good fight and blocking legislation he thought was wrong, a proud moment, recalling Milton's Samson: Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in death so noble. Instead, Daschle chose to run for reelection to the Senate, believing that the disjunction... | |
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