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 resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... English Poets of the Eighteenth Century - Page 179edited by - 1918 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1894 - 668 pages
...Paradise Lost,' book ¡. 11.399-101. Another example may be added :— For who, to dumb Forgetfulnesi a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? Graj's ' Elegy.' E. YARDLBY. Your correspondent appears to assume as a principle too well known to... | |
| Charles Jewett - 1849 - 220 pages
...grave, we need also the kind offices and kind words of our friends. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? " God have mercy on those who, at such a time, and under such circumstances, cast into the cup of... | |
| 1849 - 848 pages
...and sweet melancholy blend so inimitably, are exactly to this point : "For who to dumb forgot fulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind V Another heavy stone thrown at a man would it be, to tell him, " Your friends will show no outward... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...moralist to die. For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. For theetwho mindful of th' unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 466 pages
...feeling to which he alludes in the last verse of the following stanza : " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ! " And Pope, in his "Essays on Criticism," in a manner, though different, yet scarcely less expressive,... | |
| Salem Town - 1850 - 374 pages
...texts around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? 23. On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...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;...live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonored dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If, chance, by lonely Contemplation... | |
| William Chambers - 1851 - 200 pages
...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,...live their wonted fires. For thee who, mindful of the unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, by lonely contemplation... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...teach8 the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being9 e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful...Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Even iu our ashes live their wonted fires.10 For thee, who, mindful of the unhonoured dead, Dost in these... | |
| Rural Cemetery Association, St. Louis - 1851 - 80 pages
...prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,. Nor left one longing, lingering look behind? On some fond breast...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires.-"' Natural taste and sensibility again, plead for the rural cemetery. A seemly and beautiful sepulture... | |
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