 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 914 pages
...yetceaseth be no while; But hath his candles to prolong his toil. By him lay heavy SLEEP, the cousin of Death, Flat on the ground, and still as any stone, A very corpse, save yielding forth a breath; Small keep took he, whom Fortune frowned on; Or whom she lifted... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pages
...ceaseth he no while ; But hath his candles to prolong his toil. By him lay heavy SLEEP, the cousin of Death, Flat on the ground, and still as any stone, A very corpse, save yielding forth a breath; Small keep took he, whom Fortune frowned on ; Or whom she lifted... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...ceaseth he no while, But hath his candles to prolong his toil. 1 By him lay heavy Sleep, the cousin of Death, Flat on the ground, and still as any stone, A very corps, save yielding forth a breath ; Small keep took he whom Fortune frowned on, Or whom she lifted up into... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...reader an idea of the merit of this old poem, which was published in 1563. " By him lay heauie Sleepe cosin of Death Flat on the ground, and still as any stone, • A very corps, saue yeelding forth a breath. Small keepe tooke he whom Fortune frowned on, Or whom she lifted vp into the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...reader an idea of the merit of this old poem, which was published in 1563. " By him lay heauie Sleepe cosin of Death Flat on the ground, and still as any stone, A very corps, saue yeelding forth a breath. Small keepe tooke he whom Fortune frowned on, Or whom she lifted vp into the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...an idea of the merit of this old poem, which was published in 1563. " By him lay heauie Sleepe cosiu of Death Flat on the ground, and still as any stone, A very corps, saue yeelding forth a breath. Small keepe tooke be whom Fortune frowned on, Or whom she lifted vp into the... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...day, yet ceaseth he no while, But hath his candles to prolong his toil. By him lay heavy Sleep, cousin of Death, Flat on the ground, and still as any stone, A very corps, save yielding forth a breath. — Small keep * took he whom fortune frowned on, Or whom she lifted... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - Poets, English - 1824 - 132 pages
...upon our attention. His description of Sleep, in the former poem — " By him lay heavy Sleep, cousin of Death, Flat on the ground, and still as any stone, A very corps, save yielding forth a breath ;" and of old Age , " And next in order sad old Age we found, His beard... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1824 - 504 pages
...yet ceaseth he no while, But hath his candles to prolong his toil. By him lay heavy SLEEP, the cousin of Death, Flat on the ground, and still as any stone, A very corpse, save yielding forth a breath ; Small keep took he, whom fortune frowned on, Or whom she lifted... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - 1829 - 34 pages
...day, yet ceaseth he no while, But hath his candles to prolong his toile. By him lay heavie Sleepe, cosin of Death, Flat on the ground, and still as any stone ; A very corps, save yeelding forth a breath. Small keepe tooke he whom Fortune frowned on, Or whom she lifted up into... | |
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By him lay heavy Sleep, the cousin of Death, Flat on the ground and still as any stone, A very corpse, save yielding forth a breath; Small keep took he whom fortune frowned on Or whom she lifted up into the throne Of high renown; but as a living death,... 
