| William Enfield, Johann Jakob Brucker - 1791 - 610 pages
...whifpering • What then is death, but antient matter dreft In fome new figure, and a varied veft : Thus all things are but altered, nothing dies ; And here and there th'unbodied fpirit flies, By time, or force, or ficknefs difpoflefs'd, And lodges wh«re it lights,... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 490 pages
...buckler hung on high, and owned my former shield. Then death, so called, is but old matter dressed In some new figure, and a varied vest ; Thus all things...are but altered, nothing dies, And here and there the unbodied spirit flies, By time, or force, or sickness dispossest, And lodges, where it lights,... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 496 pages
...buckler hung on high, and owned my formt i shield. Then death, so called, is but old matter dressed In some new figure, and a varied vest; Thus all things...are but altered, nothing dies, And here and there the unbodied spirit flies, By time, or force, or sickness dispossest, And lodges, where it lights,... | |
| Publius Ovidius Naso - 1812 - 582 pages
...buckler, hung on high, and own'd my former shield. ' Then, death, so call'd, is but old mutter dress'd In some new figure, and a varied vest : Thus all things are but alter'd, nothing dies ; And here and there the' unhodied spirit flies, By time, or force, or sickness... | |
| Johann Jakob Brucker, William Enfield - 1819 - 540 pages
...Hieroc. in Aur. Carm. Porph. Vit. Pyth. n. 1^'TO * Mct^m. I. xv. v. 158, &c. -.^ ,-a-'..i hu^ siiJ " What then is death, but ancient matter drest In some...figure; and a varied vest? Thus all things are but alter'd, nothing dies ; ''ra ^<^-dot& ' : Alfd herti and tfcere th' unbodied spirit flies, •'"By... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 496 pages
...buckler hung on high, and own'd my former shield. Then death, so call'd, is but old matter dress'd In some new figure, and a varied vest ; Thus all things are but alter'd, nothing dies, And here and there the unbodied spirit flies, By time, or force, or sickness... | |
| 1823 - 430 pages
...new life repeats " In other forms — and only changes seats — " Then death, so called, is but old matter drest " In some new figure and a varied vest....but altered — nothing dies; " And here and there the embodied spirit flies, " By time, or force, or sickness dispossessed, " And lodges where it lights,... | |
| Wilkins Tannehill - 1827 - 354 pages
...animal sacrifices, in their religious ceremonies. What then is death, but ancient matter drest ^ j In some new figure, and a varied vest? Thus all things are but altered, nothing dies; And hi:rc and there the unbodied spirit flies, ^ " , By time, or force, or sickness dispossess'd, And lodges... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...cadera est, animam sic semper eandem. Esse, sed in varias doceo migrare figuras.' ' What then ¡F. death, but ancient matter drest In some new figure, and a varied vest? Tims all things are but altered, nothing dies; And here and there the' unbodied spirit flies, By time,... | |
| John Allen - 1830 - 520 pages
...beheld My buckler hung, and owu'd my former shield. What then is death, but ancient matter, dress'd In some new figure, and a varied vest ? Thus all things are but alter'd ; nothing dies : And here and there th' unbodied spirit flies, By time, or force, or sickness... | |
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