 | John Dryden - 1882 - 526 pages
...between with her sword. Enter GON SALVO, following' RODORICK, who falls. Rod. So, now I am at rest : I feel death rising higher still, and higher, Within...less And less each pulse, till it be lost in air. [Swoons away. Gons. Down at your feet, much injured innocence, I lay that sword, which Jul. Take it... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 pages
...genuine poetry. Only a poet could have written these lines : — " Something like Or these : — " I feel death rising higher still and higher Within...less And less each pulse, till it be lost in air." When he moralizes he is often admirable : — " The gods are just, But how can finite measure infinite?... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 pages
...movement more fadingly accordant with the sense, than in the last two verses of the following passage ? " I feel death rising higher still and higher, Within...vanishing sound of bells, grows less And less each puke, till it be lost in air." * Nor was he altogether without pathos, though it is rare with him.... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pages
...somewhere heard ; But floods of woe have hurried it far off Beyond my ken of soul." Or these : — " I feel death rising higher still and higher Within...less And less each pulse, till it be lost in air." When he moralizes, he is often admirable: — " The gods are just, But how can finite measure infinite?... | |
 | Susan H. Oldfield - 1901 - 430 pages
...purposes are broken off : even the thoughts of my heart.1 And a little further on she quotes from Dryden : Every breath I fetch, Shuts up my life within a shorter compass ; 1 Baruch iv. 19-22, 25-30. * The heart is dead, the world is empty, And no longer is there any power... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 362 pages
...movement more fadingly accordant with the sense, than in the last two verses of the following passage ? "I feel death rising higher still and higher, Within...within a shorter compass, And, like the vanishing sound cf bells, grows less And less each pulse, till it be lost in air. ' ' ' Nor was he altogether without... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 352 pages
...movement more fadingly accordant with the sense, than in the last two verses of the following passage ? "I feel death rising higher still and higher, Within...within a shorter compass, And, like the vanishing sound cf tells, grows less And less each pulse, till it be lost in air. ' ' 1 Nor was he altogether without... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...somewhere heard; But floods of woe have hurried it far off Beyond my ken of soul." Or these: — " I feel death rising higher still and higher Within...less And less each pulse, till it be lost in air." 199. Intellectual Traits. — But the drama was not Dryden's sphere. In his mind the judgment had ascendency... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 pages
...somewhere heard; But floods of woe have hurried it far off Beyond my ken of soul." Or these: — " I feel death rising higher still and higher Within...less And less each pulse, till it be lost in air." 199. Intellectual Traits. — But the drama was not Dryden's sphere. In his mind the judgment had'... | |
 | 1910 - 1082 pages
...good, as a hopeful basis of success. MCJ & Co. New York, January 25, 1868. " So, now I am at rest : — I feel death rising higher still, and higher, Within...less And less each pulse, 'till it be lost in air.' " Dryden. "And thou, enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay! Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods and... | |
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I feel death rising higher still and higher, Within my bosom; every breath I fetch Shuts up my life within a shorter compass, And, like the vanishing sound of bells, grows less And less each pulse, till it be lost in air. 
