 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
 | English poetry, William Fordyce Mavor - 1823 - 502 pages
...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,...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; Ev'n from... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - English literature - 1823 - 296 pages
...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...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 ; Even from... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'erfresign'd, Left the warm precincts of the 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... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...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...precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind 7 On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye... | |
 | F. Campbell - English poetry - 1824 - 440 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Select readings - 1824 - 300 pages
...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...the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one Wging ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1824 - 404 pages
...desire to leave a memorial of oneself is generally, if not universally, implanted in Human Nature: «For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey This pleasing...Being e'er resign'd ; Left the warm precincts of the genial day, Nor cast a longing lingering look behind?* (^ Some men spend their lives in action; some... | |
 | George Dyer - 1824 - 702 pages
...turn, not to be overlooked as a trifler, or as a labourer about nothing ; — operose nihit agenda : " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing;,...being e'er resign'd ? Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind > " On some fond breast the parting soul... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...and elegy supply. And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 0 For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey This pleasing...anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts ofthe cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul... | |
| |
