 | 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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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, in man or beast... 
