 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...MELANCHOLY ASPECT OF THE ONCE BUSY AND GLORIOUS SHORES OF GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark...danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where Beauty lingers), And marked the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...both burn together, and none shall quench them. ASPECT OF GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled — The first dark...danger and distress, (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose... | |
 | Sophocles - 1833 - 480 pages
...no man happy, ere he shall have crossed the limitary line of life, the sufferer of nought painful. m "The first dark day of nothingness. The last of danger and distress," says lord Byron, and so said (in part at least) Solon before him. But Aristotle, who was not a man... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1834 - 188 pages
...perusal of the beautiful lines in the Giaour on Death, beginning, " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark...danger and distress ; Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, &c. &c." l826, Aug. iST. Jno. Walker, Sculpt, of Lord Byron'... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...wrath, CommisBion'd to affright us, and destroy. MODERN GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark...danger and distress, (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the line where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 386 pages
...scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead (') Ere the first day of death is fled,,' The first dark...danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) (1) [If once the public notice is drawn to a poet, the... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...God who gave Strength to forsake it not! CXII. GREECE.—Byron. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark...danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose... | |
 | Harp - 1836 - 380 pages
...thing that perished there Was that young faithful heart ! DEATH. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark...danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the line where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 260 pages
...the scene, so formed for joy , So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled , The first dark...last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing lmgers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers ,) And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of... | |
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He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress... 
