...irresistible feeling that even his self-forgetfulness was not so absolute that he Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day Nor cast one longing, lingering look...Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Even from our graves the voice of Nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. At the conclusion...

...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,...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. Swift, Pope's...

...twilight, frail words reach like lengthening shadows across old graves. For who to dumb Forget fulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? The beauty of Gray's Elegy marked its melancholy upon Abraham Lincoln. From it he learned that an elegy...

...their wonted fires!'] From Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751), lines 89-92 : "On some fond breast the parting soul relies, / Some pious...cries, / Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." 957.28 voyons, voyons,"] Let's see; wait a moment. 983.15 "But there's a tide in the affairs of men]...

...poetry — not his own, but Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? 1 7 ///&£> RR is DIED leaving one project, and a few old col/f/f leagues, behind him. \^^ w CX The...

...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 th'unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely Contemplation...

...combination of vowels and consonants can achieve a marked change of rhythm: For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind. (From: Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard) Also in iambic metre, the very long vowels in this...

...four stanzas he would later praise in the "Elegy," going on to recite: For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? "The other stanza," Johnson concluded, "I forget."51 Johnson's forgetfulness here is doubly striking....

...anxious Being e'er resign'd; Left the warm Precincts of the chearful Day, Nor cast one longing lingring Look behind? On some fond Breast the parting Soul...Eye requires; Even from the Tomb the Voice of Nature cries, And buried Ashes glow with Social Fires. But who was there among the illiterate peasantry on...

...his epitaph's concluding injunction to 'look behind, recalling Gray: For who to dumb I'orgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?' (Elegy, lines 85-8) It is while watching the boys playing football against the hawthorn that the poet...