 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1909 - 566 pages
...following : — I Think not, by rig'rous judgment seiz'd, A pair so faithful could expire ; Victims so pure Heav'n saw, well pleas'd, And snatch'd them...hear the call, And face the flash that melts the balL Pope adds, ' Of the epitaphs which I made, the critics havechosen the godly one: I like neither . .... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, George Ostler - 1909 - 568 pages
...faithful could expire ; Victims so pure Heav'n saw, well pleas' d, And snatch'd them in celestial fire. Live well, and fear no sudden fate ; When God calls...the call, And face the flash that melts the ball. Pope adds, ' Of the epitaphs which I made, the critics have chosen the godly one : I like neither .... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 422 pages
...faithful could expire ; Victims so pure Heaven saw well pleased, And snatched them in celestial fire. Live well, and fear no sudden fate. When God calls virtue to the grave Alike His justice soon or late : in his epitaph. Her own mock-epitaph is a scathing satire upon the sentimental... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 pages
...calls virtue to the grave Alike His justice soon or late : Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmoved can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball. in his epitaph. Her own mock-epitaph is a scathing satire upon the sentimental vapourings of Pope,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...Heav'n saw well pleas'd And snatch'd them in Coelestial fire. Live well and fear no sudden fate; 5 When God calls Virtue to the grave, Alike tis Justice,...the Call, And face the Flash that melts the Ball. 10 III. EPITAPH ON THE STANTON-HARCOURT LOVERS Here lye two poor Lovers, who had the mishap Tho very... | |
 | J Bond - 1996 - 260 pages
...expire; Victims so pure Heav'n saw well pleas'd And snatched them in Caelestial fire. 112 Live well &fear no sudden fate; When God calls Virtue to the grave,...the Call, And face the Flash that melts the Ball. The verse is attributed to Alexander Pope, who certainly wrote this couplet on the tragedy:Here lye... | |
 | 1882 - 700 pages
...have suggested. You might read the lines and never guess what sort of event had inspired them : — " Live well and fear no sudden fate : When God calls...soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmoved can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball." The son of a true poet, whose title... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 1166 pages
...pleased, And snatched them in eternal fire. " Live well, and fear no sudden fate ; When God calls victims to the grave, Alike 'tis justice soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. " Virtue unmoved can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the boll." In cases such as the above a consolatory... | |
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tis justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmov'd can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball. 
