 O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched...  Poems - Page 101by Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1845 - 670 pages
...something in the above passage which may remind the reader of Sir Walter Raleigh's apostrophe : — " Oh eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could...dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world have flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the farstretched... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1845 - 606 pages
...before the 'eye of the most beautiful, and makes them see ' therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. ' O eloquent, just, and mighty...none could advise, ' thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and ' whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the... | |
 | 1845 - 622 pages
...beautiful, and makes them see ' therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. ' 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! Whom none could advise, ' thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and ' whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1845 - 604 pages
...beautiful, and makes thom see ' therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. ' 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! Whom none could advise, ' thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and ' whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 272 pages
...hear what spirits tell. Time destroys what time has made. Saw ye not whom the reeking sabre smote ? 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast east out of the... | |
 | 1848 - 936 pages
...greatness can never perish, had thus vanished before the breath of the Destroyer, he exclaimed : " O eloquent, just and mighty Death ! whom none could advise thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared thou hast done ; whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...most beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the... | |
 | rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - 162 pages
...figure, which is full of pathos and eloquence, on the evanescent nature of human pride and grandeur. " 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1851 - 444 pages
...Oceana." The most suitable epitaph for Raleigh would be that noble passage in his great work,—" 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hast flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1852 - 522 pages
...eyes of the most beautiful, and makes them gee therein their deformity ; and they acknowledge it. 0 eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could...dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world have flattered, thou only hast cast out and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness,... | |
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