 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 lapas
...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...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? • On some fond breast the parting soul relies,... | |
 | 1809 - 402 lapas
...holy text around she itrewi, That teach the rutitic moraliit to die. For who, to dumb forget fulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 lapas
...bear ; " Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, " And waste its sweetness on the desart air." " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey " This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, " Iict't the warm precincts of the cheerful day, " Nor cast one longing, ling'ving look behind." The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 lapas
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulne» a prey, " This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,...look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies. Sume pious drops the closing eye requires ; Kv'u from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'o... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 266 lapas
...elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. XXII. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? XXIII. On some fond breast'the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Even... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 lapas
...Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. XXI. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, XXII. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, , This pleasing...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? XXIII. On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Even... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 lapas
...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...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
 | 1811 - 518 lapas
...universal practice of raising .Sepulchral Monuments, and js finely illustrated by the plaintive Gray : For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd ; - Left tiie warm precincts of the cliearful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'nng louk, behind ? The most simple... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 lapas
...is much finer in Gray, and very different,. the cast of this passage is not unlike his well known " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd." As when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds Ascending, &c. If chance the radiant sun with farewell... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 lapas
...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 resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?... | |
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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 resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... 
