 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
 | John Addington Symonds - Greece - 1874 - 364 pages
...Death reigns over the peoples of the past, and we must fain be satisfied to cry with Raleigh : " 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... | |
 | Charles Selby - Great Britain - 1875 - 384 pages
...holds a glass before the eyes of the most beautiful, and makes them see 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 ihou alone hast cast out of the world,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1875 - 588 pages
...beautiful, and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. Oh, 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 ont of the... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...glass before the eyes 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 world... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - Religion - 244 pages
...SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S tribute to Death in his History of The World must be included in our cameos — "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 flattered thou only hast cast out of the world and... | |
 | William H. Rueckert - 1969 - 543 pages
...ultimate failure of communication, is nevertheless, being a mode of conduct, in the realm of speech ("O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded. . . .")76 And it must not be forgotten, Death being in the realm of speech, that men may die, for the... | |
 | J. S. Whale - Religion - 1976 - 204 pages
...that last magnificent sentence of his unfinished History of the World, written there in the Tower : ' 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... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - England - 1914 - 276 pages
...pedestrian prison-task, The History of the World, and takes leave of life with a superb gesture : 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 nattered, thou only hast cast out of the world... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - History - 1983 - 646 pages
...extended, elevated assertion is displayed in a famous passage from Raleigh's History of the World: Oh 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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Cortic, 1 988). 93 Death is a shadow that always follows the body. ENGLISH PROVERB (Hth century). 94 О ers are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands tha hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world... | |
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