 | George Eliot - Fiction - 1996 - 756 pages
...Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in death so noble.414 NOTES 1 (p. 3) sidereal clock This measures time according to the rotation of the... | |
 | Jonathan Franklin William Vance - History - 1997 - 344 pages
...Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. John Milton, 'Samson Agonistes' Introduction Q "NE OF THE most favourably reviewed books... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. 3453 Too much happens ... so noble. 7672 Samson Agonistes And calm of mind, all passlon spent. 7673 (of his school, Christ College)... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - History - 1998 - 204 pages
...favoring and assisting to the end" (1719-20), and his assurance that "Nothing is here for tears, . . . nothing but well and fair, / And what may quiet us in a death so noble" (1721-24) is pure self-delusion. The final choric ode proclaiming "calm of mind, all passion... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 414 pages
..."Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." THE END UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 39015051433194 ... | |
 | Patrick J. Quinn - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 284 pages
...fell on the field of battle: Nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,— nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. No war poet, English or American, died more contentedly. His letters of the period indicate... | |
 | Derek N. C. Wood - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 286 pages
..."peace of thought" which Adam knows on the hill' (Rajan, Lofty 144)? 'Nothing is here for tears ... nothing but well and fair, / And what may quiet us in a death so noble' (1721-4). Is this a 'call of hope to the defeated' (Hill, MER 441) to 'inflame their breasts... | |
 | George Levine - Science - 2010 - 339 pages
...like tragic realism, with a conclusion that invokes the painful meaningfulness of Samson Agonistes — "nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." The narrative ends in death, but death still has the nobility of the quest that marks all... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. Let us go find the body where it lies Soaked in his enemies' blood, and from the stream With... | |
 | Norman Podhoretz - American essays - 2004 - 498 pages
...Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair And what may quiet us in a death so noble. But perhaps the tragic Miltonic mode is too elevated for the occasion at hand. In addressing... | |
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Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. 
