 Second Voice. How lovely, how sweet the repose of the tomb ! No tempests are there : — but the nightingales come And sing their sweet chorus of bliss. First Voice. The ravens of night flap their wings o'er the grave : Tis the vulture's abode, 'tis the...  The New Edinburgh review - Page 2711822Full view - About this book
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...serves the foul toad for a bed, And snakes in its nettle-weeds hiss. Second Voice. How lovely, how sweet the repose of the tomb : No tempests are there : —...their wings o'er the grave : 'Tis the vulture's abode : — 't is the wolf's dreary save. Where they tear up the earth with their fangs. Second Voice. There... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...serves the foul toad for a bed, And snakes in the nettle-weeds hiss. Second Voice. How lovely, how sweet the repose of the tomb ! No tempests are there ; but...The ravens of night flap their wings o'er the grave ; "f is the vulture's abode ; 't is the wolf's dreary cave, Where they tear up the dead with their... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...the foul toad for a bed, And snakes in its nettle-weeds hiss. Seco?id Voice. How lovely, how sweet the repose of the tomb ; No tempests are there : —...The ravens of night flap their wings o'er the grave : 'T is the vulture's abode ; — -'t is the wolf's dreary cave, Where they tear up the earth with... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...is its sleep, And flow'rets perfume it with ether. First Voice. Second Voice. How lovely, how sweet the repose of the tomb! No tempests are there; but...The ravens of night flap their wings o'er the grave; 'T is the vulture's abode; 't is the wolfs dreary cave, Where they tear up the dead with their fangs.... | |
 | Richard Greene Parker - 1857 - 152 pages
...the bier, and the white bones all clattering together. 547. [With calmness.] How lovely, how sweet the repose of the tomb! No tempests are there ; —...nightingales come and sing their sweet chorus of bliss. 548. [In an authoritative manner.] Heat me these irons hot; and look thou stand within the arras :... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...the foul toad for a bed*, And snakes in the nettle-weeds hiss\ Second Voice. ow lovely*, how sweet, the repose of the tomb* ! No tempests are there ;...the vulture's abode, 'tis the wolf's dreary cave, v Where they tear up the dead with their fangs. Second Voice. ' First Voice. ere darkness and dampness',... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1858 - 420 pages
...the foul toad for a bed, And snakes in its nettle-weeds hiss. Second Voice. 4. How lovely, how sweet the repose of the tomb ; No tempests are there —...And sing their sweet chorus of bliss. First Voice. 5. The ravens of night flap their wings o'er the grave : Tis the vulture's abode — 'tis the wolf's... | |
 | Charles Northend - Dialogues - 1859 - 326 pages
...nettle-weeds hiss. Second Voice. How lovely, how sweet the repose of the tomb: No tempests are there:—but the nightingales come And sing their sweet chorus...flap their wings o'er the grave: Tis the vulture's abode;—'tis the wolfs dreary cave, Second Voice. There the cony at evening disports with his love,... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...serves the foul toad for a bed, And snakes in its nettle-weeds hiss. SECOND VOICE. How lovely, how lone, the repose of the tomb ! No tempests are there, but...nightingales come And sing their sweet chorus of bliss ! FIBST VOICE. The ravens of night flap their wings o'er the grave, 'Tis the vulture's abode — 'tis... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...soft is its sleep, And flowerets perfume it with ether. How lovely, how sweet the repose of the tomb I No tempests are there! but the nightingales come, And sing their sweet chorus of bliss. "RUSSIAN ANTHOLOGY." Death's harvests of a thousand years Have here been gathered in, The vintage where... | |
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