 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 resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor...  The Metropolitan - Page 2291845Full view - About this book
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 408 pages
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgel fulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful dayjNor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies j^ Some... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - 1820 - 692 pages
...finely illustrated by the plaintive Gray: For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey This pleasing, anxions being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day. Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind. The most simple and natural kind of funeral monuments, and therefore the most... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...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...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? SECTION VI. PARAGRAPHS OF GREATER LENGTH. Connubial affection. THE love that cheers life's latest... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralists 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; E'en from... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...brayVf Horrible discord ; and the madding' wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Sound Imitating Reluctance. For who, to- dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind. SECTION VI. PARAGRAPHS OF GREATER LENGTH. Connubial Affection. THE love that cheers life's latest stage,... | |
 | Richard Keynes - 1821 - 144 pages
...lost, extinguished for ever ? He had deeply read human nature, whose pathetic enquiry ran thus — " For who to dumb forgetfulness, a prey, This pleasing,...precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling' ring look behind ? " Often has Mr. Field acknowledged to his friend, that he felt cleaving to... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1821 - 260 pages
...elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. E 3 22. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'rjng look behind ? The poet seems here to have finished the reflections that at first occurred... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 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...precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies. Some pious drops the closing eye... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...fame and elrgy 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...precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye... | |
 | 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... | |
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