 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pagina’s
...not short payne well horne that brings long ease, And lays the soni to rest in quiet grave ? * Sleep a'fter toyle, port after stormy seas, Ease after warre, death after life, doth greatly please," i But If a man who has met with calamities, and has been borne down by sorrow,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1877 - 812 pagina’s
...deadly in its result. We feel that his widow has chosen the right motto for her memorial of him : — " Sleepe after toyle, port after stormy seas. Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please." He said himself in his speech at the Lotus Club, in 1874 : — " One of the kind... | |
 | John Reynolds Francis - 1894 - 412 pagina’s
...and nobler state. And surely to an overwrought and weary age this conception is very soothing: Sleep after toyle, port after stormy seas, Ease after warre, death after life, dfltti greatly please. "I look upon death," says Franklin, " to be as necessary to our constitution... | |
 | 1897 - 184 pagina’s
...we have to take upon trust, and bear, and be patient with, and never understand. MlSS MULOCK. Sleep after toyle, port after stormy seas, Ease after warre, death after life, Does greatly please. . SPENSER. If God be for us, who can be against us ? It does not matter how many,... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1909 - 336 pagina’s
...a halcyon period, almost — of new life. The shadow was never far away, but it troubled him not : Sleepe after toyle, port after stormy seas, Ease after warre, death after life, doth greatly please. In early April, influenza, followed by bronchitis, was nearly fatal. In country... | |
 | Frederick William Felkin - 1919 - 52 pagina’s
...Alexandrine,' the verse ends in a kind of climax. One of Spenser's noblest stanzas ends : — Sleep after toyle, port after stormy seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please. Other writers, particularly in short lyric stanzas, have chosen to make their... | |
 | Basil De Selincourt - 1923 - 192 pagina’s
...still hope for victory. Are there then to be no further victories for us ? Must we remain for ever content with the limited achievement of our brief...is, as the poet reminds us, the counsel of despair: Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please. Sleepe after toyle, port after stormy seas,... | |
 | Grant Cochran Knight - 1925 - 214 pagina’s
...of Spenser's Faerie Queene. They epitomize the book; they serve fitly as the rover's epitaph: Sleep after toyle, port after stormy seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please. APPENDIX I Where to purchase the books upon which the preceding chapters have... | |
 | Norman O. Brown - 2023 - 216 pagina’s
...intelligible without assuming some fin-de-siecle weariness with life, aggravated by the trauma of World War I. Sleepe after toyle, port after stormy seas, Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please. That Copernican revolution which Freud thought he was inaugurating, by showing... | |
 | Elise Lawton Smith, Evelyn De Morgan - 2002 - 268 pagina’s
...force. The subject was probably inspired by the declaration in Spenser's The Faerie Queene that "Sleep after toyle, port after stormy seas, Ease after warre, death after life doe greatly please," but it also has more recent parallels in nineteenth-century mystic poetry and... | |
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Sleepe after toyle, port after stormy seas, Ease after warre, death after life docs greatly please. 