 | Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...miseries. No chronic tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him. And I am glad, that he has lived thus long, And glad that he is gone to his reward ; Nor deem, that kindly nature did him wrong. Softly to disengage the vital cord.... | |
 | American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...miseries. No chronic tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him. And I am glad, that he has lived thus long, And glad, that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem, that kindly nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew... | |
 | American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...was his ; No chronic tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury ari3 sloth had nourished none for him. And I am glad, that he has lived thus long, And glad, that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem, that kindly nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew... | |
 | Theology - 1828 - 568 pages
...racked his agod limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him. ' And I am glad, that he hag lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward j Nor deem that kindly nature did him wrong, Poftlv to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...miseries. No chronic* tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished nonef for him. " And I am glad that he has lived thus long ; And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that kindly nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...miseries. No chronick tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him. 7. " And I am glad that he has lived thus long ; And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that kindly nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 286 pages
...miseries. No chronic tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him. And I am glad, that he has lived thus long, And glad, that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem, that kindly nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew... | |
 | Mrs. M. A. Patrick - Consolation - 1837 - 214 pages
...be a fund of consolation on which you may safely draw drafts in hours of affliction and adversity. And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that kindly nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital chord. When his weak hand grew... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 pages
...away. Cheerful he gave his being up, and went To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent. " And I am glad that he has lived thus long. And glad that he has gone to his reward ; Nor deem that kindly nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 304 pages
...miseries. No chronic* tortures rack'd his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourish'd none for him. " And I am glad that he has lived thus long, And glad that he has gone to his reward; Nor deem that kindly nature did him wrong, Softly to disengage the vital cord. When his weak hand grew... | |
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That life was happy ; every day he gave Thanks for the fair existence that was his ; For a sick fancy made him not her slave, To mock him with her phantom miseries. No chronic tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for... 
