 | Mrs. Marshall - 1846 - 150 pages
...remarks are of course chiefly confined to the middle ranks of life.' PECULIAR INTEREST. CHAPTER VIII. I was a stricken deer, that left the herd, Long since...panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek, in distant shades, a quiet death. There was I found by one, who had himself Been hurt by archers. In... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...here, Where vice has such allowance, that her shtfts And specious semb'.ances have lost their use. I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since. With many an arrow deep infix'd My panting side was charg'd, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There... | |
 | 1846 - 392 pages
...Savior, who is its distinguished glory and chief corner-stone, we should write upon his tomb,— ' I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since. With many an arrow, deep infixed, My panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 pages
...necessity of discipline in education, and on various other topics. In Book in comes the famous passage I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since;...with many an arrow deep infixt My panting side was charg'd . . . and here he celebrates "domestic happiness" and gardening as giving "blest seclusion... | |
 | 1888 - 1026 pages
...Geständnis in der Task. I was a stricken dccr that left the herd Long since; with many an arrow deep infixed My panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek...tranquil death in distant shades. There was I found by Ojie wlio had Himself Been hurt by the archers. In His side He bore, And in His hands and feet, the... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...piety and, sometimes, of mildly melancholy autobiography, as in the famous "stricken deer" passage: I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since;...withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. . . . It is in Book III, too, that we find the most eloquent expression of that religious humanitarianism... | |
 | Andrew Elfenbein - 1999 - 282 pages
...being a joyful account of domestic pleasure, his story is one of personal trauma and partial recovery: I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since;...shades. There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by th'archers. In his side he bore, And in his hands and feet the cruel scars. With gentle force... | |
 | Amal Asfour, Dr Paul Williamson, Paul Williamson - 1999 - 360 pages
...scene }, 'The Death of the Earl', 0.1743. Oil on canvas, 70.5 x 90.8 cm. © National Gallery, London. I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since;...with many an arrow deep infixt My panting side was charg'd when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was I found by one who had... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 2000 - 682 pages
...conceit for the desperate lover; also an echo of Cowper's famous self-description in The Task (1785): "I was a stricken deer that left the herd / Long since;...when I withdrew / To seek a tranquil death in distant shade." Cowper's victim was rescued and restored by a fellow victim (3.108 ff.). 10 Cf. Christ on the... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 pages
...collapsed, and he is counting heavily on man as rational animal. 7.2. 7 COWPER, IÌROKENMAN WliO FOUXD GRACE I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since; with many an arrow deep infixed My panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There... | |
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My panting side was charged when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.^ There was I found by one who had himself Been hurt by the archers. 
