 | Robert Chambers - 1864 - 866 Seiten
...no sudden fate ; When God calls victims to the grave, Alike 'tia justice soon or late, Mercy ¿like to kill or save, Virtue unmov'd can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball' This second epitaph was engraved on a stone in the parish church of Stanton-Harcourt. Thomson appears... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams - 1906 - 554 Seiten
...faithful could expire, Victims so pure, heav'n saw well pleased. 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. Gay 2 gives in a letter the following picturesque account of the death of the lovers : They have passed... | |
 | George Paston - 1907 - 672 Seiten
...faithful could expire ; Victims so pure Heav'n saw well pleased, And snatched them in celestial fire. Live well, and fear no sudden fate : When God calls...soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmoved can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball." Lady Mary knew a good deal more... | |
 | George Paston - 1907 - 628 Seiten
...virtue to the grave, Alike 'tis justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmoved can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball." Lady Mary knew a good deal more about the country and country folk than Pope, thanks to her long solitary... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1909 - 570 Seiten
...letter, and adding the following : — I Think not, by rig'rous judgment seiz'd, A pair so faithful could expire ; Victims so pure Heav'n saw, well pleas'd,...the call, And face the flash that melts the ball. Pope adds, ' Of the epitaphs which I made, the critics have chosen the godly one : I like neither .... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1909 - 566 Seiten
...faithful could expire ; Victims so pure Heav'n saw, well pleas'd, And snatch'd them in celestial fire. n Live well, and fear no sudden fate ; When God calls...hear the call, And face the flash that melts the balL Pope adds, ' Of the epitaphs which I made, the critics havechosen the godly one: I like neither . .... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 422 Seiten
...faithful could expire ; Victims so pure Heaven saw well pleased, And snatched them in celestial fire. Live well, and fear no sudden fate. When God calls virtue to the grave Alike His justice soon or late : in his epitaph. Her own mock-epitaph is a scathing satire upon the sentimental... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 Seiten
...calls virtue to the grave Alike His justice soon or late : Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmoved can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball. in his epitaph. Her own mock-epitaph is a scathing satire upon the sentimental vapourings of Pope,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 Seiten
...Heav'n saw well pleas'd And snatch'd them in Coelestial fire. Live well and fear no sudden fate; 5 When God calls Virtue to the grave, Alike tis Justice,...the Call, And face the Flash that melts the Ball. 10 III. EPITAPH ON THE STANTON-HARCOURT LOVERS Here lye two poor Lovers, who had the mishap Tho very... | |
 | J Bond - 1996 - 260 Seiten
...expire; Victims so pure Heav'n saw well pleas'd And snatched them in Caelestial fire. 112 Live well &fear no sudden fate; When God calls Virtue to the grave,...the Call, And face the Flash that melts the Ball. The verse is attributed to Alexander Pope, who certainly wrote this couplet on the tragedy:Here lye... | |
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tis justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmov'd can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball. 
