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... English Poets of the Eighteenth Century - Pàgina 179editat per - 1918 - 364 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
| John Kitto - 1825 - 244 pàgines
...reluctance to die which even the wisest aud the best may experience ; For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering, look behind ? As for myself— witness every feeling of my heart, tbat years have intervened since I contemplated... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pàgines
...forgetfulness a prey, -• ? This pleasing anxious being e'er resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
| 1826 - 310 pàgines
...to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, 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,... | |
| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pàgines
...to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, 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,... | |
| 1827 - 386 pàgines
...a place he lately purchased in the bury, ing-ground on the Gallon. u For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...day. Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind!" A monument on that airy elevated cemetry, which, on account of a magnificent terrace now carried round... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pàgines
...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,—...live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If, chance, by lonely Contemplation... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pàgines
...to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing— lingering...live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonor'd dead, Dost, in these lines, their artless tale relate, By chance and lonely Contemplation... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pàgines
...to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing — lingering...Nature cries, Even in our ashes, live their wonted tires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonor'd dead, Dost, in these lines, their artless tale relate,... | |
| George Merriam - 1828 - 292 pàgines
...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,...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
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