...cheaply wipes his score, Lifts up his eyes, and hastes to beggar more. 466 Where the brass-knocker, wrapt in flannel band, Forbids the thunder of the...the dying breath ; 470 As vultures o'er a camp, with hov'ring flight, Snuff up the future carnage of the fight. Here canst thou pass, unmindful of a prayer,...

...cheaply wipes his score, Lifts up his eyes, and hastes to beggar more. 466 Where the brass-knocker, wrapt in flannel band, Forbids the thunder of the...the dying breath ; 470 As vultures o'er a camp, with hov'ring flight, Snuff up the future carnage of the fight. Here canst thou pass, unmindful of a prayer,...

...click'd the hour she died, And shrilling crickets in the chimney cried. GAY. Where the brass knocker wrapt in flannel band Forbids the thunder of the footman's...death, Waits with impatience for the dying breath. GAY. While there is life there's hope, he cried. GAY. The prince, who kept the world in awe, The judge,...

...death confounds 'em all. v. G\i—Fablei. Pt. II. Fable 16. 134 DEATH. DEATH. Where the brass knocker, h. The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. Partridge. Ah,...And ah, ye poachers ! — 'Tis no sport for peasant a. GAY— Trivia. Bk. II L. 467. None who e'er knew her can believe her dead ; Though, should she die,...

...1900. "Where the brass knocker, wrapt in flannel band, Forbids the thunder of the footman's hand, The upholder, rueful harbinger of death, Waits with impatience for the dying breath." living; in the sacred precincts of the medical counsel chamber, at the bedside of the sick and dying,...

...14 Where the brass knocker, wrapt in flannel band, Forbids the thunder of the footman's hand, The' was a great plot of state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate. ANDREW MARVELL GAY— Trivia. Bk. UL 467. 15 For dust thou art, and unto dust shall thou return. Genesis. III. 19....

...waters of the unruffled lake Anchors, her placid beauty." 412 On page 470 occurs the following : — " As vultures o'er a camp with hovering flight Snuff up the future carriage of the light, While thousand phantoms from th1 unbury'd slain Who feed the vultures of Emathia's...

...about the upholders' involvement in the funeral trade in the following terms: "Where the brass knocker wrapt in flannel band, Forbids the thunder of the...death, Waits with impatience for the dying breath. " JOHN GAY 1685-1732 In the 16th and 17th centuries much of the work of the College of Arms came from...