 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 páginas
...kept; What gave mo case, and how I slept Î And more lament, when I was dead, Than all the snivellers ngland shall many a day Tell of the bloody fray, When...Blue Bonnets came over the Border. REBECCA'S HYMN. Tliev must be verified at last ! STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1720. All travellers at first incline Where'er... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 204 páginas
...lie. Not one foretells I shall recover, But all agree to give me over. I U4 On the Death of Dr. Swift. Behold the fatal day arrive ! " How is the Dean?"—" He's just alive." Now the departing prayer is read ; " He hardly breathes." " The Dean is' dead." Before the passing bell begun, The news... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 páginas
...kept ; What gave me ease, and how I slept ? And more lament when I was dead, Than all the snivellers round my bed. ~ My good companions, never fear ; 'For...Dean ? " — " He's just alive." Now the departing prayer is read : " He hardly breathes." — " The Dean is dead." Before the passing bell begun, The... | |
 | Albert Hamann - 1883 - 62 páginas
...the place where last he dined; Plies you with stories o'er and o'er; He told them fifty times before. Behold the fatal day arrive! How is the dean ? he's just alive. Now the departing prayer is read. He hardly breathes. The dean is dead. Before the passing — bell begun, The news through... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 páginas
...polished and gilded, he furiously rushed on against this new approacher. From VERSES ON His OWN DEATH. Behold the fatal day arrive! How is the Dean? He's just alive. Now the departing prayer is read; He hardly breathes. The Dean is dead. * * * * * Oh may we all for death prepare 1 What... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1890 - 364 páginas
...kept; What gave me ease, and how I slept ? And more lament, when I was dead, Than all the snivellers round my bed. My good companions, never fear; For, though you may mistake a year, Though your prognosties run too fast, They must be verify'd at last. Behold the fatal day arrive ! " How is the... | |
 | James Hay - 1891 - 390 páginas
...own death. It is so thoroughly characteristic, that I shall be forgiven for quoting a few stanzas : Behold the fatal day arrive. How is the Dean ? He's just alive. Now the departing prayer is read; He hardly breathes. The Dean is dead. * Bolingbroke, who at this time was living a... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 páginas
...hold out till spring!' They hug themselves, and reason thus : •jo ' It is not yet so bad with us !'] My good companions, never fear ; For though you may...How is the Dean?' — ' He's just alive.' Now the departing-prayer is read ; ' He hardly breathes — the Dean is dead ! ' Before the passing-bell begun,... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 páginas
...sunk, his muse a jade, • I'd have him throw away his pen :— Bnt there's no talking to some men. Behold the fatal day arrive ! How is the dean ? he's just alive. Now the departing prayer is read ; He hardly breathes The dean is dead. Before the passing bell begun, The news through... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 páginas
...kept ? What gave me ease, and how I slept ? And more lament when I was dead, Than all the snivellers eauty. Formed with the qualities which ? ' He "s just alive.' Now the departing prayer is read ; ' He hardly breathes. ' ' The dean is dead.'... | |
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Now the departing prayer is read: He hardly breathes. The Dean is dead. Before the passing-bell begun, The news through half the town has run. O, may we all for Death prepare! What has he left? And who's his heir? 
