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" What if some little pain the passage have, That makes frail flesh to fear the bitter 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... "
The story of a life, by the author of Scenes and impressions in Egypt and Italy - Page 344
by Joseph Moyle Sherer - 1825
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Medical Histories and Reflections ...

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,...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

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...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 99

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...
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The Westminster Review, Volume 157

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...
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Spenser and the Faery Queen

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,...
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Spenser and the Faery Queen

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...
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Selections from the Poetical Works of Geoffry Chaucer: With a Concise Life ...

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...
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Edmund Spenser's Knight of the red cross; or Holiness [The faerie queene ...

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...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

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,...
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The Christian Parlor Magazine, Volume 8

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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