 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...the quick ear cannot follow her flight, And the flood is unstirred as the calm blue ether. GREECE.2 HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...freed inheritors of hell; So soft the scene, so formed for joy, So cursed the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the plaeid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...first day of death is fled,— The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, — Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...Greece. Return in all thy simple state ; Confirm the tales her sons relate ! LESSON CVI. Greece. BYROB. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, — The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, — Before decay's effacing... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 424 pages
...utterance : " Median stress ": " Low pitch " : Prevalent " monotone and semitone " : Long pauses.) " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, — The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, — (Before Decay's effacing... | |
 | James Carter, Thomas Carter - Biography & Autobiography - 1845 - 486 pages
...other instance. It forcibly brought to my mind that beautiful simile in Lord Byrotfs '.Giaeur :' " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death has fled ; Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And mark d the... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 614 pages
...akin to rhetoric. In discussing him I once quoted the exquisite passage in " The Giaour " beginning, " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled," comparing Greece to the dead man in the moment after death. Your father admitted its beauty, but said... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...the scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy! ANCIENT AND MODERN GREECE. HE wtD hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The lirst dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers... | |
 | James Edward Cowell Welldon - Future life - 1898 - 368 pages
...impressive language by a great poet whose thoughts were wont to play about the subject of Immortality. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak... | |
 | James Edward Cowell Welldon - Future life - 1898 - 368 pages
...impressive language by a great poet whose thoughts were wont to play about the subject of Immortality. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak... | |
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He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers... 
