...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 death so noble.414 NOTES 1 (p. 3) sidereal clock This measures time according to the rotation of the...

...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. John Milton, 'Samson Agonistes' Introduction Q "NE OF THE most favourably reviewed books...

...Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. 3453 Too much happens ... so noble. 7672 Samson Agonistes And calm of mind, all passlon spent. 7673 (of his school, Christ College)...

...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...

..."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." THE END UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 39015051433194 ...

...fell on the field of battle: 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. No war poet, English or American, died more contentedly. His letters of the period indicate...

..."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...

...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...

...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. Let us go find the body where it lies Soaked in his enemies' blood, and from the stream With...

...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. But perhaps the tragic Miltonic mode is too elevated for the occasion at hand. In addressing...