 | English literature - 1812 - 528 pages
...no forc'd banquet claims the sated guest, But Silence spreads the couch of ever welcome rest. " Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of...beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducec And sophists, madly vain of dubious lore ; How sweet it were in concert to adore With those... | |
 | 1812 - 564 pages
...soul's immortality, we were a little relieved by the expressions of doubt in the 8th stanza, " Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore;" in which the bard rises to the level of the heathen historian, " Si quis piorum manibus locus, si,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 pages
...forc'd banquet claims the sated guest, But Silence spreads the couch of ever welcome rest. vm. Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doetrine of the Saddueee Aad sophists, madly vain of dubious lore ; How sweet it were in eoneert to... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1815 - 702 pages
...will make room for the following specimen, which we extract from ' Lines to Childe Harold.' ' 0 ! " if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be '' A land of souls beyond Death's sable shore," How would quicktfcearted Harold bum to see The much lov'd objects of his life... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...There no forc'd banquet claims the sated guest, But Silence spreads the couch of ever welcome rest. Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of...beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducec And Sophists, madly vain of dubious lore ; How sweet it were in concert to adore With those... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...— And if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be1 A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To *hame the doctrine of the Sadducee, And Sophists, madly vain of dubious lore ; . Hour sweet it were in concert to adore With those who made our mortal labours light! , . To hear... | |
 | Robert Charles Dallas, Alexander Robert Charles Dallas - Poets, English - 1824 - 468 pages
...that point, and I was obliged to be satisfied with the hypothetical but most beautiful stanza — Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, &c. which, in the course of our contention, he sent me, to be inserted after the sceptical stanzas... | |
 | Robert Charles Dallas, Alexander Robert Charles Dallas - Poets, English - 1824 - 466 pages
...that point, and I was obliged to be satisfied with the hypothetical but most beautiful stanza — Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, &c. which, in the course of our contention, he sent me, to be inserted after the sceptical stanzas... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 674 pages
...length sent me to substitute for thiSj was that beautiful one— « Yet if, as holiest men have deemed, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore,...doctrine of the Sadducee, And sophists, madly vain of duhious lore, How sweet it were in concert to adore, With those who made our mortal labours light'.... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...sated gnost, But Silence spreads the couch of ever-welcome rest. Yet if, as holiest mcu have deemed, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee Aud sophists, madly vain of duhious lore: How sweet it were in concert to adore With those who made... | |
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Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee Aud sophists, madly vain of dubious lore... 
