| Charles Dickens - 1894 - 322 Seiten
...faithful could expire ; Victims so pure Heaven saw well pleas'd, And snatch'd them in celestial fire. Live well and fear no sudden fate ; When God calls...Alike 'tis justice soon or late, Mercy alike to kill and save. Virtue unmoved can hear the call. And face the flash that melts the bmlL Some half-mile from... | |
| Sir Richard Steele - 1894 - 544 Seiten
...well pleased, And snatched them in celestial fire. Live well, and fear not sudden fate ; When death calls virtue to the grave, Alike 'tis justice soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue alike can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball." But let us take our places, and carry... | |
| Sir Richard Steele - 1894 - 544 Seiten
...well pleased, And snatched them in celestial fire. Live well, and fear not sudden fate; When death calls virtue to the grave, Alike 'tis justice soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. V1rtue alike can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball." But let us take our places,... | |
| Richard Steele - 1894 - 538 Seiten
...calls virtue to the grave, Alike 'tis justice soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue alike can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball." But let us take our places, and carry it gravely, suitable to your fortune and merit. [Here it is performed.... | |
| William Andrews - 1899 - 284 Seiten
...faithful could expire ; Victims so pure Heav'n saw well pleas'd, And snatch'd them in celestial fire. Live well, and fear no sudden fate ; When God calls...the call, And face the flash that melts the ball. According to a letter from Gay, the poet, to Fenton, relating the death of the pair, who were lovers,... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 586 Seiten
...faithful could expire ; Victims so pure Heav'n saw well pleas'd And snatch'd them in celestial fire. Live well, and fear no sudden fate : When God calls...kill or save. Virtue unmov'd can hear the call, And fj.cc the flash that melts the ball. Upon the whole, I can't think these people unhappy. The greatest... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 Seiten
...faithful could expire ; Victims so pure Heaven saw well pleased, And snatched them in celestial fire. unmoved can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball. Upon the whole, I cannot think these... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 Seiten
...faithful could expire ; Victims so pure Heaven saw well pleased, And snatched them in celestial fire. unmoved can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball I the whole, I cannot think these... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 Seiten
...When God calls Virtue to the grave, Alike 't is Justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or snve. Virtue unmov'd can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball. EPITAPH The subject is supposed to he John Gay. WELL, then, poor G lies underground! So there 's an... | |
| 1906 - 810 Seiten
...Market-place — Noon Trust not in words, but deeds, — YOUNG, Night Thought!, VII, line 1005 sLive well, and fear no sudden fate: When God calls virtue...'tis justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or saveVirtue unmoved can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball, POPE, Epitapht an John... | |
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