 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...O' the sudden and cried, Father, we should grieve Far less if thou wouldst eat of us : thou gav'st These weeds of miserable flesh we wear ; And do thou...stillness. That day and the next We all were silent. Oh ! obdurate earth ! Why open'dst not upon us ? When we came To the fourth day, then Gaddo at my feet... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1847 - 318 pages
...mere physical deaths of the others — which also occurred in regular numerical succession. Thus : " When we came To the fourth day, then Gaddo at my feet, Outstretched did fling him, crying, " Hast no help For me, my father ?" Then he died ; and e'en Plainly... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1850 - 656 pages
...sudden, and cried, ' Father, we should grieve ' Far less, if thou wouldst eat of us : thou gavest1 ' These weeds of miserable flesh we wear ; ' And do...When we came To the fourth day, then Gaddo at my feet Outstrelch'd did Hing him, crying, ' Hast no help ' For me, my father !' There he died ; and e'en Plainly... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1853 - 1522 pages
...sudden, and cried, ' Father, wo should grieve ' Far less, if thou wouldst eat of us : thou gavest' ' These weeds of miserable flesh we wear ; ' And do thou strip them off* from us agaiu.' Then, not to make them sadder, I kept down My spirit in stillness. That day and the next We... | |
 | Literature - 1864 - 672 pages
...O" the sudden and cried, "Father, we should grieve Far less, if thou wouldst eat of ns : thou gavest These weeds of miserable flesh we wear ; And do thou...strip them off from us again." Then not to make them sjuliier, I kept down My spirit in stillness. That, day and the next "We all were silent. Ah, obdurate... | |
 | Vincenzo Botta - 1865 - 444 pages
...the sudden, and cried, ' Father, we should grieve Far less, if thou wouldst eat of us : thou gavest These weeds of miserable flesh we wear; And do thou...When we came To the fourth day, then Gaddo at my feet Outstretched did fling him, crying, ' Hast no help For me, my father ?' There he died ; and e'en Plainly... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...the sudden, and cried, 'Father, we should giie\ts Far less, if thou wouldst oat of us : thou gavest These weeds of miserable flesh we wear: And do thou...not to make them sadder, I kept down My spirit in stilluuss. 'lh.it ib v and the next We all were silent. Ah, obdurate earth ! Why oiMin'dst not upon... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1874 - 420 pages
...the sudden, and cried, " Father, we should grieve Far less, if thou wouldst eat of us : thou gavest These weeds of miserable flesh we wear, And do thou strip them off from us again."' Cary's Dante. 1.3651. Dante; ie Dante Alighieri, the great poet of Italy, born in 1265, died Sept.... | |
 | Rev. John Reid - Grief - 1875 - 406 pages
...the sudden, and cried, 'Father, we should grieve Far less, if thou wouldst eat of us : thou gavest These weeds of miserable flesh we wear ; And do thou...and the next We all were silent. Ah, obdurate earth 1 Why opan'dst not upon us ? When we came To the fourth da,y, then Gaddo at my feet Ontstretch'd did... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...the sudden, and cried : ' Father, we should grieve Far less if thou wouldst eat of us : thou gayest rs were all silent. Ah, obdurate earth ! Why open'dst not upon us ? When we came To the fourth day, then... | |
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These weeds of miserable flesh we wear; And do thou strip them off from us again.' Then, not to make them sadder, I kept down My spirit in stillness. That day and the next We all were silent. Ah, obdurate earth ! Why open'dst not upon us ? When we came... 
