 | William Hazlitt - Authors and publishers - 1821 - 420 pages
...giving him a single Cockle-Shell. in perpetuity, and embalm our mistakes in the memories of others. " Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries. Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." I shall not speak here of unwarrantable commands imposed upon survivors, by which they were to carry... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 568 pages
...enabling us to settle many disputed points in the habits and the private history of our ancestor*: "Even from the tomb, the voice of nature cries, Even in our ashe*, live their wonted Are* !" In the preier.t instance, thii voice would, in all probability have... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...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...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. ADDRESS TO LORD BYRON. KNOW'ST thou the land of the mountain and flood, Where the pine of the forest... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - English literature - 1823 - 296 pages
...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...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. ANECDOTE OF GENEROC9 FRIENDSHIP. DIONYSIUS, the Emperor of Syracuse, had passed sentence of death upon... | |
 | William Benbow - Church of England - 1823 - 336 pages
...the coffins to obtain luxuries are the real motives for this unhallowed plunder of the beloved dead. Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Even in our ashes live their hallowed fires. For our parts, we are accustomed to look with reverence and respect to the place were... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...make it the ghastly monster it is. We think how we should feel, not how the dead feel. " Still from the tomb the voice of nature cries ; Even in our ashes live their wonted fires!" There is an admirable passage on this subject in TUCKER'S Light of Nature Pursued, which I shall transcribe,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...make it the ghastly monster it is. We think how we should feel, not how the dead feel. " Still from the tomb the voice of nature cries ; Even in our ashes live their wonted fires !" There is an admirable passage on this subject in TUCKER'S Light of Nature Pursued, which I shall transcribe,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 276 pages
...pictures, hang up our weaknesses in perpetuity, and embalm our mistakes in the memories of others. " Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." I shall not speak here of unwarrantable commands imposed upon survivors, by which they were to carry... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1827 - 568 pages
...enabling us to settle many disputed points in the habitsand the private history of our ancestors : " Even from the tomb, the voice of nature cries, Even in our ashes, lire their wonted fires 1" In the present instance, this voice would, in all probability have continued... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even from...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th' unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance... | |
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On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. 
