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... The Guide to Knowledge - Page 426edited by - 1833Full view - About this book
| Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...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...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the... | |
| 1800 - 322 pages
...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...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires, Ev'n from the... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...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 cast one longing ling'ring look behind ?... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pages
...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, ling'ring look behind ? XXI. The poet seems here to have finished the reflections that at first occurred to him from the... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pages
...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...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; No more,... | |
| 1812 - 1020 pages
...1812, With uncouth rhymes, and shhpless sculpture cteck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd ? J.ct't the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one lunging, lingering look, behind. GHAY'S... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...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 resiga'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling' ring look behind?... | |
| 1806 - 330 pages
...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...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires, Ev'n from the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...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...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...holy text around she strews, That irai.h the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulntss a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,...day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind! On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; For thee who,... | |
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