 | George Vandenhoff - 1867 - 448 pągines
...Crownless, breathless, headless, fall — Son and sire — the house of Saul!" MODERN GREECE.— BTBOJTHE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day...death is fled. The first dark day of nothingness, The lost of danger and distress — Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty linger!... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1878 - 672 pągines
...which beautifies death, and as I stood and gazed I remembered Lord Byron's immortal lines — " He that hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death has sped, The first long day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's defacing... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 pągines
...as radically erroneous, and completely absurd. SYDNEY SMITH. 212 GEEECE. HE1 wh5 halt bent him 6'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last1 of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers1 Have swept the lines1 where beauty lingers),... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pągines
...By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. HODEKX GREECE* He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers ; And niark'd the mild angelic... | |
 | 1869 - 1042 pągines
...fired with a vain love. Our train of thought calls up by association those lines of Byron : " He that hath bent him o'er the dead. Ere the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, Th« last of dang T aud distress ; Before decay's effacing... | |
 | mrs. Alexander Fraser - 1872 - 260 pągines
...to mourn for him, and went to his grave leaving but an image of beauty in his wife's memory. But ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of life be fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before decay's effacing... | |
 | Charles Pebody - 1872 - 458 pągines
...one of the most striking and beautiful to be found in English poetry, and contains, as Jeffrey said, an image more true, more mournful, and more exquisitely finished than any in the whole compass of poetry. Yet the original suggestion of this image is to be found in a work... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 pągines
...the Cape ? When ? How long did the foreign empire of Portugal last 1 What led to its fall? GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled — Before Decay's 'effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers ; And marked the mild,... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 pągines
...mighty uproar, — And this way the water comes down at Lodore. BYRON.— BORN 1788; DIED 1824. GEEECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And mark'd the mild angelic... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 374 pągines
...beautiful, but still and melancholy aspect of the onco busy and glorious shores of Greece, by an imago more true, more mournful, and more exquisitely finished, than any that we can recollect in the whole compass of poetry. — JEFFREY.] 10.— Page 9, line 30. Clime of the unforgotten... | |
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The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye... 
