| Moses Severance - 1833 - 304 páginas
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 23. For who, to dumb forgctfulness a prey, ." • This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned — Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day — i Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind'* 23. On somfi fond breast the parting soul relies,... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1834 - 524 páginas
...this truth in lines of transcendant beauty and force, which find a response in every breast : 'For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind 1 'On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from... | |
| Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 páginas
...transcendent beauty and force, which find a response in every breast ; — " For who, to dumb forgctfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering- look behind " On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from... | |
| 1836 - 558 páginas
...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...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from... | |
| Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 páginas
...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...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." " On some... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 páginas
...elegy supply 5 And many a holy text around she strews—• That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing—lingering look behind ? Even from the tomb, the voice of Nature cries s... | |
| George Home - 1837 - 364 páginas
...Westminster Abbey, under the monument erected to his memory by his grateful country." CHAPTER VI. " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious...resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cost one longing lingering look behind. On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 páginas
...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,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even from... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 páginas
...elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...day, — Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? 23. On some fond breast the parting soul relies : Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Even... | |
| Noah Webster - 1839 - 218 páginas
...Gray's Elegy written in a Country Church-yard, are distinguished by a happy choice of words. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ?" The words longing and lingering express most forcibly the reluctance with which mankind quit this state... | |
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