 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...good — Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages pasl, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in...meadows green — and, poured round all, Old ocean's grey and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man." We now... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 602 pages
...a love of Nature and of books. THE DEPARTURE. -" Tboa símil lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth —...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sephulchre." BRYANT. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirits' distant shore ? Earth's mightiest men,... | |
 | 1822 - 858 pages
...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All iu one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-rihb'd and ancient as the sun,.— the vales Stretching in...meadows green — and, poured round all, Old Ocean's grey and melancholy waste,— Arc but the solemu decorations all 510 OS the great touib of nun. The... | |
 | Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...that any one has more vividly described the Earth as 'the great tomb of man.' ' The hills, Hock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and, pourcJ round all, Old ocean's grey and melancholy wasteAre but the solemn decorations all Of the great... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1822 - 824 pages
...ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the rales Stretching in pensive quietness between The venerable...meadows green — and, poured round all, Old Ocean's grey aud melancholy waste,— Arc but the solemu décorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden... | |
 | American poetry - 1822 - 298 pages
...:nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth —...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...— nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth —...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...— nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent: thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth —...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 412 pages
...— the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past. All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, —...complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured roui all, Old ocean's grey and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...— nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth —...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
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Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty... 
