 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 strani
...precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling', ii look behind ? On some fond breast tlic parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing...tomb the voice of Nature cries. E'en in our ashes lire their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' nnhonour'd dead. Dost in these lines their artless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 strani
...anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm 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 requires j Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n iu our ashes live their wonted fires '. ' Ch'i... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 strani
...sigh. XXI. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, XXII. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, , This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? XXIII. On some fond breast the parting soul relies,... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 strani
...dumb forgetfulness a prey, . This pleasing anxious being e'er resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting si>ul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 544 strani
...burying-ground on the Calton. 9 Mr. Hume died at Edinburgh, August 25th, 1776. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?" A monument on that airy elevated cemetery, which,... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 394 strani
...as a trifler, or as a labourer about nothing, operose nihil agenda. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
 | 1814 - 310 strani
...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 cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 strani
...around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, 85 This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; 90 NOTES. " Mollia per placidam delectant otia vitam." Manil. A. sir. iv. 512. Ver. 87. Left the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 strani
...the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Sound, Imitating Reluctance. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd...day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind? SECTION VI. PARAGRAPHS OF GRIATER LENGTH. Connubial Affection. THE love that cheers life's latest stage,... | |
 | 1854 - 800 strani
...as bespeaks, into the earth? Here is the whole stanza : — " On some fond breast the parting sonl relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires, E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, K'en in our ashes live their wonted 6res." It is altogether, it will be seen, a very elaborate... | |
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Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd 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,... 
