| John Ferriar - Medicine - 1792 - 792 pages
...the close of life, under these circumstances, without recollecting those beautiful lines of Spenser : Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life doth greatly please. In some delicate and irritable persons, a kind of struggle is sometimss excited,... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...? Is not short pain well borne, that brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave ? Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas. Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please. Hie knight much \vonder'd at his sudden wit, And said : The term oflife is limited, Ne may a man prolong... | |
| England - 1866 - 830 pages
...wave ? Is not short pain well born that brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave ? Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please.' XDL " The knight much wondered at his sudden wit, And said, ' The term of life is limited, Ne may a... | |
| Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...wave ? Is not short pain well borne that brings long ease And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave ? Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, doth greatly please." Bat the Puritan soldier who was so strangely mingled with the Eenascence artist... | |
| Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 266 pages
...; Is not short pain well borne, that brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave : Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please." * Uneath, below. The knight much wondred at his sudden wit, And said ; " The term of life is limited,... | |
| Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 262 pages
...; Is not short pain well borne, that brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave : Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please." XL. The knight much wondred at his sudden wit, And said ; " The term of life is limited, Nor may a... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...; Is not short pain well borne, that brings long ease, And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave : Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please.1' * Uneath, below. XLI. The knight much wondred at his sudden wit, And said ; " The term of... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1850 - 140 pages
...Is not short pain well borne that brings long ease, ' And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave ? ' Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ' Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please.' The knight much wondered at his sudden wit, And said, ' The term of life is limited, ' Nor may a man prolong... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...7 Is not short pain well borne, that brings long ease. And lays the soul to sleep in quiet grave 7 Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, doth greatly please." The knight much wondered at his sudden wit, And said, " The term of life is limited,... | |
| Religion - 1852 - 302 pages
...see the close of life, under these circumstances, without recalling those beautiful lines of Spenser: "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, , Ease after war, death after life, doth greatly please. ' ' And what is commonly true of this disease, is so, likewise, in many others.... | |
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