 | Alan Warren Friedman - 1995 - 360 頁
...Manoa, Samson's literal-minded father, exceeds the Chorus in hailing the glory of his son's death: Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. (1721-4) Samson, God's "scourge and minister" (as Hamlet calls himself [3.4.182]), rebel and irritant,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1996 - 756 頁
...again. But it was some hours before he had ceased to breathe with Mirah's and Deronda's arms around him. Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in death so noble.414 NOTES 1 (p. 3) sidereal clock This measures time according to the rotation of the... | |
 | Jonathan Franklin William Vance - 1997 - 344 頁
...Province of Prince Edward Island and located in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Death So Noble Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. John Milton, 'Samson Agonistes' Introduction Q "NE OF THE most favourably reviewed books of 1937 was... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 頁
...Samson hath quit himself Like Samson, and heroically hath finished A life heroic. 7671 Samson Agonistes I-NAV Walter R. 2578 God 7672 Samson Agonistes And calm of mind, all passlon spent. 7673 (of his school, Christ College) A stony-hearted... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - 1998 - 204 頁
...favoring and assisting to the end" (1719-20), and his assurance that "Nothing is here for tears, . . . nothing but well and fair, / And what may quiet us in a death so noble" (1721-24) is pure self-delusion. The final choric ode proclaiming "calm of mind, all passion spent"... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 414 頁
...But it was some hours before he had ceased to breathe, with Mirah's and Deronda's arms around him. "Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock...fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." THE END UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 39015051433194 ... | |
 | Patrick J. Quinn - 2001 - 284 頁
...the flurry of machine gun fire. Seeger's body was ripped apart, and he fell on the field of battle: Nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness,...and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. No war poet, English or American, died more contentedly. His letters of the period indicate that he... | |
 | Derek N. C. Wood - 2001 - 286 頁
..."peace of thought" which Adam knows on the hill' (Rajan, Lofty 144)? 'Nothing is here for tears ... nothing but well and fair, / And what may quiet us in a death so noble' (1721-4). Is this a 'call of hope to the defeated' (Hill, MER 441) to 'inflame their breasts /To matchless... | |
 | 1898 - 784 頁
...presence where is fullness of joy." Nothing is here for tears ; nothing to wail Or break the heart. No weakness, no contempt, Dispraise or blame ; nothing but well and fair, And what may qniet us in a death so noble." Mrs. Sarah H. Hatckt Treasurer General. CURRENT TOPICS. WHAT are the... | |
 | George Levine - 2010 - 339 頁
...like tragic realism, with a conclusion that invokes the painful meaningfulness of Samson Agonistes — "nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble." The narrative ends in death, but death still has the nobility of the quest that marks all narratives... | |
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Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble. 
