 I should record the beauty, innocence, and untimely death, of the first object my eyes ever beheld with love. The beauteous virgin! how ignorantly did she charm, how carelessly excel? Oh death! thou hast right to the bold, to the ambitious, to the high,...  Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Page 196by Nathan Drake - 1814Full view - About this book
 | 1900 - 492 pages
...beauteous virgin! how ignorantly did she charm, how carelessly excel ! O Death ! thou hast right to the bold, to the ambitious, to the high, and to the haughty...shroud. How ill did the habit of death become the pretty triflerl I still behold the smiling earth A large train of disasters were coming on to my memory, when... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1900 - 608 pages
...death in • The Hoggarty Diamond,' we are moved in the same way. ' O Death, thou hast a right to the bold, to the ambitious, to the high, and to the haughty,...the meek, to the undiscerning, to the thoughtless ? ' Thackeray might well have written that sentence, and the likeness between the two only serves to... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1902 - 386 pages
...beauteous virgin' ! how ignorantly did she charm, how carelessly excel ! O death ! thou hast right to the bold, to the ambitious, to the high, and to the haughty...ill did the habit of death become the pretty trifler ! I still behold the smiling earth A large train of disasters were coining on to my memory, when my... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pages
...beauteous virgin! how ignorantly did she charm, how carelessly excel? Oh death! thou hast IBB right to the bold, to the ambitious, to the high, and to the haughty;...undiscerning, to the thoughtless? Nor age, nor business, iso nor distress can erase the dear image from my imagination. In the same week, I saw her dressed... | |
 | 1906 - 578 pages
...beauteous virgin! how ignorantly did she charm, how carelessly excel! Oh Death! thou hast right to the bold, to the ambitious, to the high, and to the haughty;...why this cruelty to the humble, to the meek, to the undisceming, to the thoughtless ? ^ Nor age, nor business, nor distress, can erase the dear image from... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1907 - 392 pages
...beauteous virgin ! how ignorantly did she charm, how carelessly excel ! O death ! thou hast right to the bold, to the ambitious, to the high, and to the haughty...ill did the habit of death become the pretty trifler ! I still behold the smiling earth A large train of disasters were coming on to my memory, when my... | |
 | 1900 - 1162 pages
...moved In the same way. "O Death, thou hast a right to the bold, to the ambitious, to the high, no-d to the haughty, but why this cruelty to the humble, to the meek, to the undlscernIng, to the thoughtless?" Thackeray might well have written that sentence, and the likeness... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pages
...beauteous virgin! how ignorantly did she charm, how carelessly excel! Oh, Death! thou hast right to the +Ю + + cr;is" the dear image from my imagination. In the same week, I saw her dressed for a ball, and in a... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 pages
...beauteous virgin! how ignorantly did she charm, how carelessly excel! Oh, Death! thon hast right to the and those dropping gums, That lie bestrewn, unsightly...unsmooth, 631 Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease. Xor age, nor business, nor distress, can erasithe dear image from iny imagination. In the same week,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...beauteous virgin! How ignorantly did she charm, how carelessly excel! 0 Death! thou hast right to the bold, to the ambitious, to the high, and to the haughty;...did the habit of Death become the pretty trifler! I still behold the smiling earth — A large train of disasters were coming on to my memory, when my... | |
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