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 172 DEATH

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He whom the gods love dies young. Menander—Dis Exapaton. Same in Dionysius—Ars Rhetorica. Vol. V. P. 364. Reiske's Ed. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Byron) There's nothing certain in man's life but this: That he must lose it. | author = Owen Meredith | cog = (Lord Lytton) | work = Clytemnestra. | place = Pt. XX. | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = If I should die to-night, My friends would look upon my quiet face Before they laid it in its resting-place, And deem that death had left it almost fair. Robert C. V. Meyers—// I should Die Tonight. Sec 100 Choice Selections. No. 27. P. 172 | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Aujourd'hui si la mort n' existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer. Today if death did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it. MrLLADD—When voting for the death of Louis XVI. Bismarck used same expression to CHEVALrER Nigra, referring to Italy. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Voltaire}} under {{sc|God}}) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

DEATH

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. Joaquin Miller—Even So. St. 35. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = O fairest flower; no sooner blown but blasted, Soft, silken primrose fading timelessly. | author = Milton | work = Ode on the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = So spake the grisly Terror. Mn/roN—Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. II. L. 704. I fled, and cried out Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded Death. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. II. L. 787. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. II. L. 803. is Death Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be filled. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. II. L. 845. w Eas'd the putting off These troublesome disguises which we wear. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. IV. L. 739. Behind her Death Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet On his pale horse. MrLTON—Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. X. L. 588. How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap! | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. X. L. 775. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. XI. L. 491. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nous sommes tous mortels, et chacun est pour soi. We are all mortaL and each one is for himself. Mouere—L'Ecole des Femmes. II. 6. On n'a point pour la mort de dispense de Rome. Rome can give no dispensation from death. Molieres—L'Etourdi. II. 4. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Kempis}}) | topic = Death | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = La mort (diet on) nous acquitte de toutes nos obligations. Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. | author = Montaigne | work = Essays. | place = Bk. I. Ch. 7. | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = La mort est. la recepte a touts maulx. | author = Montaigne | work = Essays. | place = Bk. II. Ch. 111. | topic = Death | page = 172 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day. Montgomery—In Memory ofE. G. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Death | page = 172 }}