Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 249by John Milton - 1849 - 283 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1746 - 464 pages
...and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the coifing ! deep the groans ! DESPAIR Tended the fick, bufieft from couch to couch : 490 And over them triumphant DEATH his dart Shook ; but delay'd to ftrike, though oft invok'd "With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. Sight fo deform what heart... | |
| English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide.wasting pestilent*, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-nicking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans; Despair Tended the sick busiest from couch to couchl .499 And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 262 pages
...afthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the toffing, deep the groans ; Defpair Tended the fick bufieft from couch to couch ; 490 And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to ftrike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. Sight fo deform what heart... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 258 pages
...afthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the toffing, deep the groans ; Defpair Tended the fick bufieft from couch to couch ; 490 And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to ftrike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. Sight fo deform what heart... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...epilepsies, fierce catarrhs1 Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demonaic phrenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus,...Despair Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch ; 49* And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay' d to strike, though oft invok'd With... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac phrenzy, moping melancholy, 485 And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus,...Despair Tended the sick, busiest, from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart 491 Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft iavok'd With... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...phrenzy, moaping melancholy, •And moon-struck madness, pining airophy, Marasmus, and wide wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking...tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick, husiest from couch to couch -t And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, hut delay'd to strike,... | |
| Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...epilepsies, fierce catarrhs. , Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac phrenzy, moping melancholy And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus,...pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums." To meet this tremendous catalogue of human ills, a spirit of charity has diffused itself amongst all... | |
| William Godwin - Great Britain - 1804 - 450 pages
...ulcer; cholic pangs; Demoniac phrenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness; pining atrophy r Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence; Dropsies, and...Despair Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch: And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook ; but delay'd to strike. BARADISE LOST, BOOI$ XI, VCr.... | |
| John Gabriel Stedman - Guiana - 1806 - 518 pages
...fierce catarrhs ; " Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, " And moon-struck madness ; pining atrophy, " Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums :...Despair " Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch. " And over them triumphant Death his dart " Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd " With... | |
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