 | Edward Walford - 1867 - 84 pages
...JEscb. Pars. 801). 'funeral train,' ,rH/Uiri/iof Ti/^. ' sweet lyric song,' ^Seis Of.i'ifwv I'oitw.i, Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...contempt, Dispraise, or blame ; nothing but well 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'... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1867 - 440 pages
...PILGRIM FATHERS * NEW ENGLAND. CHAPTER I. THE EXODUS. "Nothing is here for tears ; nothing to wnil Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise or blame ; nothing but well and fair." MILTON, Samson Agonistcs. THE influence of that mysterious triad, the gold eagle, the silver dollar,... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Browne - 1868 - 238 pages
...and happiest yet, all this With God not parted from him, .... But favoring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...contempt Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." LIBR I UNIVKBSIT (CALIFORNIA. Jl v_. ..„___ =, x VALEDICTORY... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...he says the words that for some readers have seemed to explain why the play is not a true tragedy? Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. [1721-24] Like everything else that Manoa has said in the... | |
 | John Milton - 1988 - 244 pages
...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...contempt, Dispraise, or blame, 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... | |
 | George N. Marshall - 1988 - 260 pages
...become clarified and heightened for us? Again, take Milton's stoic stanza from "Samson Agonistes": Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail, Or knock...Dispraise, or blame — nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Is it not the contemplation of the life so noble which calms... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1992 - 324 pages
...before us." Milton caught the discipline of this attitude toward death in his imitation Greek chorus: Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...contempt, Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.*0 The struggle to contain individual sorrow in a larger... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breasl, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Let usgofnd the body where it lies Sok't in his enemies... | |
 | Charles W. Durham, Kristin Pruitt McColgan - 1994 - 316 pages
...any certainty that he will not undermine it with an impetuous act. Manoa comforts the chorus, saying: Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what might quiet us in a death so noble. (1721-24) The Danites want some peace and quiet after... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1994 - 524 pages
...grave of the Patriot, to whom, living, his own self-respect Sufficed alike for Motive and Ileward. " Nothing is here for Tears, nothing to wail Or knock...contempt, Dispraise or blame ; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a life so noble." This Stone Is erected by his daughter, Caroline Carson.... | |
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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. 
