 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...vale of peace. Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied. Thanked heaven that he had lived, and that he died.' FESTON (Sir Geoffry), privy counsellor and secretary in Ireland, during the reigns of queen Elizabeth... | |
 | Joe Miller - English wit and humor - 1836 - 266 pages
...vale of peace ; Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, nor there to fear ; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thanked heaven that he had lived, and that he died. The Petition of Justice B ns's Horse, to his Grace the Duke ofN Quite worn to the stumps, in a piteous... | |
 | John D'Alton - Dublin (Ireland : County) - 1838 - 962 pages
...common sense ; Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear : From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thanked Heaven that he had lived, and that — he died." There are also in this aisle a tombstone to Christopher Russell, who died in 1750, erected near the... | |
 | John D'Alton - Dublin (Ireland : County) - 1838 - 960 pages
...he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear : From nature's lemperate feast rose satisfied, Thanked Heaven that he had lived, and that — he died." There are also in this aisle a tombstone to Christopher Russell, who died in 1750, erected near the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 330 pages
...vale of peace, Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thanked Heaven that he had lived, and that he died. 10 xi: ON MR. GAY, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1732. AF manners gentle, of affections mild ; '-' In wit,... | |
 | Frances Power Cobbe - Future life - 1874 - 310 pages
...them, require the notion of another ndfiah life beyond the grave to keep up any interest in exigence."* Here, again, surely we meet the singular train of...he " From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thunkiul Heaven that he had lived and that he died;" and made uo demand for further existence for himself... | |
 | Christianity - 1877 - 638 pages
...nothing is to be said, so far as he himself is concerned, respecting a man who wishes it to be written on his tombstone that he " From Nature's temperate...Thanked Heaven that he had lived and that- he died," except this ; that his choice of eternal sleep betrays the fact that there is no one in this world... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1877 - 646 pages
...nothing is to be said, so far as he himself is concerned, respecting a man who wishes it to be written on his tombstone that he " From Nature's temperate...Thanked Heaven that he had lived and that he died," except this; that his choice of eternal sleep betrays the fact that there is no one in this world or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 pages
...value of peace. Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thanked heaven that he had lived, and that lie died. XI.— ON MR. GAY, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 1732. OF manners gentle, of affection mild ; In... | |
 | James Bonar - Malthusianism - 1885 - 272 pages
...Lucretins had written: "Cur nou, nt plenna vitœ conviva, recedls?"> and Fenton, in Pope's* familiar lines: "From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thanked Heaven that he had lived and that he died." But the new application took hold on the public fancy. Sir William Pulteney and Wimlham are said to... | |
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Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thanked Heaven that he had lived, and that he died. 
