...dragon came. Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order ranged Of tame villatic fowl. Line 1692. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Line 1721. Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call Earth. Cumm. Lint 5. That golden...

...his voice henceforward can sound to our ears only in memory or through his books, we can say : — " Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." Yet in reading this work it is not the thought of death that is most present to us ; that is almost...

...more cause: Samson hath quit himself Like Samson, and heroicly hath finish 'd A life heroic, . . . Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. The Chorus echo this thought: All is best, though we oft doubt, What th' unsearchable dispose Of highest...

...a loving God who ordered them all for his higher purposes, to pronounce the same verdict on Jacob: Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble. ALL PASSION SPENT Genesis 50:15-26 15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their fat her was dead, they...

...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...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. [1721-24] Like everything else that Manoa has said in the play, this is at best a half-truth, a partial...

...eternal fame; And which is best and happiest yet, all this With God not parted from him, as was feard, But favouring and assisting to the end. Nothing is...death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soak't in his enemies blood, and from the stream With lavers pure and cleansing herbs wash off The...

...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...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Is it not the contemplation of the life so noble which calms and steadies us in this hour? The great...

...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...well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.*0 The struggle to contain individual sorrow in a larger meaning is pronounced "well and fair"...

...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...nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a life so noble." This Stone Is erected by his daughter, Caroline Carson. Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth...

...Manoa, Samson's literal-minded father, exceeds the Chorus in hailing the glory of his son's death: Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. (1721-4) Samson, God's "scourge and minister" (as Hamlet calls himself [3.4.182]), rebel and irritant,...