 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 398 pages
...' mentions a discussion which he had with her respecting the authorship of the well-known lines : ' To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...roar : Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, tis o'er !' * ' Piozzi Letters,' i. 32. 326 Transitory Fame. She had spoken of these verses as Dryden's, on... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 394 pages
...' mentions a discussion which he had with her respecting the authorship of the well-known lines : ' To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...roar : Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, tis o'er !' * ' Piozzi Letters,' i. 32. She had spoken of these verses as Dryden's, on the authority of a passage... | |
 | 1891 - 788 pages
...his iest. His remains rest in the beautiful cemetery adjoining the Reformed Church, Middletown, Md. " To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er." REV. CALVIN U. I! KII.M AN. A faithful and efficient minister and servant of Christ! Born in Heilmandak>r... | |
 | Judson Fisher - 1891 - 196 pages
...BLANCO WHITE. T is impossible that we think rightly when we suppose that death is an evil. SOCRATES. ¥O die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. GARTH. fear the night? Why shrink from death, That phantom wan? There is nothing in heaven, or earth... | |
 | Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - 112 pages
...his head. ON DEATH. Tis to the vulgar death too harsh appears; The ill we feel is only in our fears. To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. The wise through thought the insults of death defy; The fools through blessed insensibility. Tis what the guilty fear, the pious... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1892 - 906 pages
...breathe their momentary sweets, then go, Tis the stainless soul within That outshines the fairest skin. To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. Garth. Man dies; but the immortal thoughts of man, The common feelings of humanity, Live on, the same... | |
 | 1892 - 860 pages
...after, through death, into eternity. I am told that in his last hours he repeated Garth's lines : — To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. But this is hearsay; and it is not thus that my mind's eye beholds him. I prefer to imagine those dreamily... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1892 - 316 pages
...simile which follows. 9. Probably misquoted from "The Dispensary," by Samuel Garth (1670-1719) : 44 To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never break nor tempests roar." 10. this mimic show. Explain the meaning of this expression. EPITAPH ON A HARE. HERE lies, whom hound... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1894 - 144 pages
...life is ever swallowed up in death; 'tis merely mooring the storm-tossed craft in a harbor of refuge. To die is landing on some silent shore, Where billows...; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. And what is this that we term death ? 'Tis but a prolonged and unawakened dream. Sleep and death are... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1894 - 152 pages
...up in death; 'tis merely mooring the storm-tossed craft in a harbor of refuge. To die is lauding ou some silent shore, Where billows never break nor tempests...roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 'tis o'er. And what is this that we term death ? Tis but a prolonged and unawakened dream. Sleep and death are... | |
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To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never break nor tempests roar : Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er. 
