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
| 1846 - 436 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,... | |
| Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pàgines
...hearts, here tell your anguish : What is the following stanza called ? For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind? — Gray. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 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,...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. 9 For thee, who, mindful of the unhonored dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If chance,... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 pàgines
...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,... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1851 - 344 pàgines
...dumb forgetrulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er renign'd, Left the warm precincts of Ihe cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires." friend or relation, whose future welfare he is concerned to promote. 2. But another cousideration adds... | |
| William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 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,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind JOn some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even from... | |
| 1849 - 822 pàgines
...— how comely in critical old age ! Any farther fault to find with our friend Mitford ? NORTH. " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." •"Pious drops' is from Ovid — pías lachryma: ; ' closing eye' is from Pope — •voice of nature'... | |
| 1849 - 602 pàgines
...CANVASS. comely in critical old age ! Any farther fault to find with our friend Mitford ? NORTH. " On " Paracelsus attains," we are in Constantinople,...conjurer professes the power of possessing everybody wi " ' Pious drops' is from Ovid — pioe lachrymae ; ' closing eye' is from Pope — ' voice of nature'... | |
| 1849 - 844 pàgines
...— how comely in critical old age ! Any farther fault to find with our friend Mitford ? NORTH. " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." '" Pious drops ' is from Ovid — pia: lachryma! ; ' closing eye' is from Pope — ' voice of nature'... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pàgines
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 5 For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned...look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; 10 Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries;... | |
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