 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 - 1821 - 192 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 pages
...fame and elogy 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... | |
 | 1821 - 772 pages
...passages of his works he is thought to have imitated Gray, as in those fine lines in his Elegy— " And who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd !" Italic^ — " E chi mai cede a una eterna oblivione questa cara e trava'gliata esistenza ! " But... | |
 | 1822 - 418 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, Even from... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 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...resign'd; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, Hrig'ring look behind? SECTION VI. -PARAGRAPHS OF GREATER LENGTH. Connubial... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...endless wishes room ; But through the cool sequesler'd vale of life Pursue the silent tenor of thy doom. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing" anxious being" e'er resign'el, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful llav, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 716 pages
...melancholy reigns. In the succeeding lines, the sound of the verse is made to imitate reluctance of mind. For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...day, , Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? • We have now given sufficient openings into this subject : a moderate acquaintance with good writers,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...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 Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 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 7 On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
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