 | James Hain Friswell - 1871 - 510 pages
...poor animile — he wants a mouthful o' oats, too!" CHAPTER XII. " Miserable creature ! If thou perish in this, 'tis damnable; Dost thou imagine thou canst slide on blood, And not be tainted by the shameful fall?" The White Devil (1612), actus iv. j|LL this time, when Lord Wimpole was undergoing... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1871 - 470 pages
...treasure was stolen, he went and hanged himself on the very tree that had caused its discovery. BARANGA. " Miserable creature ! If thou persist in this, 'tis damnable Dost thou imagine thou canst slide in blood, And not be tainted with a shameful fall ? Or, like the black and melancholic yew-tree, Dost... | |
 | William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 506 pages
...Sir, be of comfort. Brack. O thou soft natural death, that art joint-twin To sweetest slumber ! no rough-bearded comet Stares on thy mild departure ;...Pity winds thy corse Whilst horror waits on princes. Vittoria Corombona. I am lost for ever! Brack. How miserable a thing it is to die 'Mongst women howling... | |
 | William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 518 pages
...Sir, be of comfort. Brach. O thou soft natural death, that art joint-twin To sweetest slumber ! no rough-bearded comet Stares on thy mild departure ;...Pity winds thy corse Whilst horror waits on princes. Vittoria Corombona. I am lost for ever ! Brach. How miserable a thing it is to die 'Mongst women howling... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 668 pages
...well worth repeating here : "O, thou soft natural death! thou art joint twin To sweetest slumber : no rough-bearded comet Stares on thy mild departure :...Scents not thy carrion : — pity winds thy corse, While horror waits on princes." Are. With fairest flowers, Whilst Summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1876 - 820 pages
...passage on natural death : — O, thou soft natural death, that art joint twin To sweetest slumber ; no rough-bearded comet Stares on thy mild departure ;...casement ; the hoarse wolf Scents not thy carrion. Place this side' by side with the following lines from Lord Lytlon's " Last Words " :— I shall sleep... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1877 - 424 pages
...Sir, be of comfort. Brach. 0 thou soft natural death, that art* jojnt-twin To sweetest slumber ! no rough-bearded comet Stares on thy mild departure ;...pity winds thy corse, Whilst horror waits on princes. Fit. Car. I am lost for ever. Brach. How miserable a thing it is to die 'Mongst women howling ! Enttr... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...Sir, be of comfort. Brach. O thou soft natural death ! thou art joint-twin To sweetest slumber ! no rough-bearded comet Stares on thy mild departure :...pity winds thy corse, Whilst horror waits on princes. Vit. Cor. I am lost for ever. Brach. How miserable a thing it is to die {Enter Lodovico and Gasparo... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Italy - 1880 - 602 pages
...exclaim on his deathbed :— ' O thou soft natural Death, thou art joint-twin To sweetest Slumber ! no rough-bearded comet Stares on thy mild departure ;...winds thy corse, Whilst horror waits on princes.' CATASTROPHES OF REIGNING FAMILIES. 109 in little more than a century (1318-1435) three were deposed... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - General - 1871 - 618 pages
...OR, TWO A LEFT-HANDED BRIDE. Bv HAIN FRISWELL. CHAPTER XLIX. " Miserable creature ! If thou perish in this, 'tis damnable ; Dost thou imagine thou canst slide on blood, And not be tainted by the shameful fall?" The White Dtvil(ldi-f), actus iv. AI .L this time, when Lord Wimpole was •**•... | |
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O thou soft natural death, that art* joint-twin To sweetest slumber ! no rough-bearded comet Stares on thy mild departure ; the dull owl Beats not against thy casement ; the hoarse wolf Scents not thy carrion : pity winds thy corse, Whilst horror waits... 
