 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 páginas
...their graves. Nay, they will not be forgotten while the world has a written history." CHAPTEE III. " nder hilt. Then with both hands I flung him, wheeling him ; But when I looked again, : Even wondered at because he dropt no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...their graves. Nay, they will not be forgotten while the world has a written history." CHAPTER III. ** ^mށ & M I YL W 9F @ Ψ5# OS O F S P M ǃ- 0 5 h }Jbɔ j 31 B > : Even wondered at because he dropt no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 páginas
...pleasures are. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. I. His hair just grizzled As in a green old age. CEdipus. Act iii. &. i. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long; Even wondered at, because he dropt no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet... | |
 | William Mathews - 1882 - 404 páginas
...life as that described by Dryden two hundred years ago is now becoming more and more phenomenal: — " Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long, Even wondered at because he dropped no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet... | |
 | Michael W. Smith - 1882 - 444 páginas
...apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds. jEgeon.—King Polybus is dead. CEdipus.—How died he ? ^Effeon.—Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long ; Even wondered at because he dropt no sooner, Fate seemed to round him up for four-score years, Yet... | |
 | Charles James Fox Binney - 1883 - 580 páginas
...Banvard would calm his most violent symptoms instantly, and he would answer, " How beautiful that is." " Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long "* 98a.t SAMUEL 7 PREtrms, son of William and Mary (Watson) PrenU'ce, b. in Marlboro', Mass., Oct.... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1883 - 320 páginas
...no likeness between a man and fruit on a tree, or a clock, yet Dryden very forcibly says : " Of DO distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long, E'en wondered at because he dropped no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for four-score years, Tet... | |
 | John Potter Briscoe - 1883 - 168 páginas
...Aldridge, who died at the age of ninety years, in High Wycombe, Bucks, is the following epitaph:— Of no distemper, Of no blast he died, But fell, Like autumn fruit That's mellowed long, E'en wonder'd at, Because he dropt no sooner. Providence seem'd to wind him up... | |
 | Massachusetts Horticultural Society - 1885 - 1314 páginas
...encouragement of the cultivation of certain fruits — will forever be associated with his name. " Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long." It is my good fortune to be able to repeat this year the favorable financial statement of last year,... | |
 | 1886 - 100 páginas
...be happy to have lived such a life—who is there that envies not such a death ? " Of no contagion, of no blast, he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long. So freshly he ran on three score and ten, And then the busy wheels of life stood still." VII. REMARKS... | |
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of April, in the 73d year of his age, surrounded by those who loved and respected him. It was a beautiful and fitting close to a long and useful life. " Of no distemper, of no blast, he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long." The funeral... 
