 | Pindar - 1852 - 434 pągines
...to Fortune's ills unknown, Tlieir country's weal enhance, and crown it with their own. On some kind. breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops...cries ; ... E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. * Mercury being the ayyfXoc or Messenger of the Gods, according •to the mythology of the ancients,... | |
 | Pindar - 1852 - 434 pągines
...to Fortune's ills unknown, Their country's weal enhance, and crown it with their own. On some kind breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops...cries ; E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. * Mercury being the ayyiXof or Messenger of the Gods, according to the mythology of the ancients, our... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852
...to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'll, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." Explain... | |
 | 1853 - 472 pągines
...to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering...their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If 'chance, by lonely Contemplation... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 223 pągines
...rustic moralist to die.' This is nngrammatical. ' Many a holy text that teaches,' it ought to be. * On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.' • Pious drops ' is from Ovid — ' pise lacrymse ; ' ' Closing eye, ' is from Pope's Elegy; ' Voice... | |
 | English poetry - 1853
...to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look...relies ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries ; Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 448 pągines
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgctfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd,...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
 | 1854 - 430 pągines
...moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonored dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If, chance, by lonely contemplation... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 426 pągines
...dumb forgetfulness a' prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering...relies ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 166 pągines
...to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
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Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... 
