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 - Pągina 179editat per - 1918 - 364 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| George Willson - 1844 - 300 pągines
...Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, — Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind 7 23 On some fond breast the parting soul relies : Some pious...nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted firus 24 For thee, who, mindful of the unhonored dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate,... | |
| 1849 - 600 pągines
...how comely in critical old age ! Any farther fault to find with our friend Mitford ? to NORTH. " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Even in oar ashes live their wonted fires." " ' Pious drops' is from Ovid — piae lachrymae ; ' closing eye'... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pągines
...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...parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eve requires ; Even from the tomb thp voice of Jfature cries ; Even in our ashes live their wonted... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pągines
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For4 who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops5 the closing eye requires ; Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Even in our ashes6... | |
| Anne MacVicar Grant - 1845 - 350 pągines
...to me in particular, why should I be so desirous of being remembered and even regretted ? — " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." This may be, certainly is, obscure to the eye, but not so to the heart, which acknowledges the meaning... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pągines
...soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body moke. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey. This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind Т On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Kv'u from... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pągines
...to which he alludes in the last verse of. the following stanza :' " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ! " And Pope, in his "Essays on Criticism," in a manner, though different, yet scarcely less expressive,... | |
| John Hall - 1845 - 354 pągines
...his name stood for something that was worthy of the character of man. For who, to dull forgetfulness a prey', This pleasing', anxious' being e'er resigned',...day', Nor cast one longing' lingering', look behind' ? This desire, so universal, so natural to man', revelation hath no where forbidden. Let it only be... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pągines
...lo'ok behm'd ? On some/ fon'd-breast/ the par'ting-soul/ relie's, Some pio'us-drops/ the clo'sing-eye req'uires ; Even from the to'mb/ the voice of na'ture...their wo'nted fi'res. For the'e/, wh'o (mindful of the unho'noured d'ead,) Do'st/ in these lin'es/ their artless tale rel'ate, If chan'ce, (by lonely... | |
| Sunset - 1845 - 120 pągines
...separation from every mortal delight and endearment which it involves : " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned;...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ?" It is attended by anxious forehodings and guilty apprehensions, which nature knows not how to repress... | |
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