 | 1847 - 390 Seiten
...children of the kingdom. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being ere resigned ; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?" — Gray. So sings one, who here at least speaks the language of the earth. Contrast the language of... | |
 | John Kitto - 1825 - 244 Seiten
...difficult to assign a cause for that reluctance to die which even the wisest aud the best may experience ; For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering, look behind ? As for myself— witness every feeling of my heart, tbat years have intervened since I contemplated... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 Seiten
...around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, 85 This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? blance of this and the four next lines to the following of Celio Magno, is pointed out in the number... | |
 | 998 Seiten
...every mortal delight and endearment, which it involves : 41 For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, Thii pleasing, anxious being, e'er resigned ; Left the...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ?" it is attended by anxious forebodings and guilty apprehensions, which nature knows not how to repress... | |
 | 1827 - 386 Seiten
...He was interred yesterday, at a place he lately purchased in the bury, ing-ground on the Gallon. u For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...day. Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind!" A monument on that airy elevated cemetry, which, on account of a magnificent terrace now carried round... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 408 Seiten
...lately purchased in the burying-ground on the Gallon. 41 For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, Tbis pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ! " A monument on that airy elevated cemetry, which, on account of a magnificent terrace now carried... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 292 Seiten
...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, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 Seiten
...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,...day,— Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies : Some pious drops the closing eye requires: Even from... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 Seiten
...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,...day, — Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies : Some pious drops the closing eye requires: Even from... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1831 - 46 Seiten
...us this truth in lines of transcendant beauty and force, which find a response in every breast ;— For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul reliea ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from... | |
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For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... 
