 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 sayfa
...could wish its end ! Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To press the weary minute's flagging wings ; New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister...daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable hier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear. Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 428 sayfa
...space of four years. In no period of its history, equally short, have such shining marks been found. " Now kindred merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated...; Still drops some joy from withering life away." Scholarship, Jurisprudence, Art, Humanity, each has been called to mourn its chosen champion. Pickering,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 436 sayfa
...its history, equally short, have such shining marks been found. " Now kindred merit fills the sal'le bier, Now lacerated friendship claims a tear ; Year...; Still drops some joy from withering life away." Scholarship, Jurisprudence, Art, Humanity, each has been called to mourn its chosen champion. Pickering,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 sayfa
...wish its end 1— Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging wings; New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister...year, decay pursues decay. Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage; Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 sayfa
...shall wish its end 1 Yet even on this her load misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging wings; New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister...or a daughter mourns. Now kindred merit fills the sablu bier, Now lacerated friendship claims a tear. Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 sayfa
...shall wish its end ? if et ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, press the weary minutes' flagging wings ; New sorrow- rises as the day returns, A sister...pursues decay, Still drops some joy from withering lite away ; New forms arise, and different views engage, Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 sayfa
...shall wish its end? Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging wings : New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister...year, decay pursues decay; Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diffrent views engage, Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 sayfa
...end I—- Yet ev'n on this her load Misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' nagging wings 5 New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now hindred merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated friendship claims a tear ; Year chases year, decay... | |
 | Harriet Beaufort, Lessons, Author of Bertha's journal - 1854 - 298 sayfa
...successive loss of friends, the smallest diminution of happiness is the more painful to us. ' Tear chases year, decay pursues decay. Still drops some joy from withering life away.' " " And yet," said Constance, " some philosophers — Paley, for instance — assure us that age is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 sayfa
...end \ Yet e'en on this her load Misfortune flings, To press the weary minutes' flagging wings ; 300 New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens,...away ; New forms arise, and different views engage, 307 Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids... | |
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New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear. Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from... 
