 | Sir Henry John Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams - 1906 - 554 pages
...fire. Live well, and fear no sudden fate When God calls virtue to the grave, Alike 'tis justice soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmov'd...the call, And face the flash that melts the ball. Gay 2 gives in a letter the following picturesque account of the death of the lovers : They have passed... | |
 | George Paston - 1907 - 628 pages
...virtue 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 ball." Lady Mary knew a good deal more about the country and country folk than Pope, thanks to her long solitary... | |
 | George Paston - 1907 - 672 pages
...virtue 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 ball." Lady Mary knew a good deal more about the country and country folk than Pope, thanks to her long solitary... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1909 - 570 pages
...II Live well, and fear no sudden fate ; When God calls virtue to the grave, Alike 'tis justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmov'd...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 - 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
...fire. Live well and fear no sudden fate; 5 When God calls Virtue to the grave, Alike tis Justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmov'd...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
...fire. 112 Live well &fear no sudden fate; When God calls Virtue to the grave, Alike tis Justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmov'd...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
...virtue 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 ball." The son of a true poet, whose title he inherits, and the brother of a poet who inherits his father's... | |
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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. 
