 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
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 544 pages
...lately purchased in the burying-ground on the Calton. 9 Mr. Hume died at Edinburgh, August 25th, 1776. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?" A monument on that airy elevated cemetery, which,... | |
 | 1814 - 310 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...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...strews, That teach the rustic moralists to die. / For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasiny, anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts...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... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 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 resign'd, Left the warm precincts ot the cheerful day, Nor 1 cast one longing, ling'ring, look behind ? H 3 On some fond breast the parting... | |
 | 1814 - 568 pages
...should not have a proper relish for life, or that we should be indifferent about its extinction ; " 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 lingering wish behind •"... | |
 | John Walker - 1814 - 548 pages
...is much finer in Gray, and very different, the cast of this passage is not unlike his well known Fof 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...clashing bray'd Horrible discord ; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Sound imitating Reluctance 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, liug'ring look behind... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 pages
...bray'd , Horrible discord ; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Sound, Imitating Reluctance. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind? SECTION VI. PARAGRAPHS OF GRIATER LENGTH. Connubial Affection. THE love that cheers life's latest stage,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, 85 This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the...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 ; 90 NOTES.... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgeifulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ! On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
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