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... Results of Reading - Seite 289von James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 351 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 Seiten
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'.er the dead, Ere the first...mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The fix'd, yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 Seiten
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The fix'd, yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — hut... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...or fast, The tie which bound the first endures the last. [From The Giaour.] THE FIRST DAY OF DEATH. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 Seiten
...50. THE BEAUTIFUL, BUT STILL AND MELANCHOLY ASPECT OF THE ONCE BUSY AND GLORIOUS SHORES OF GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where Beauty lingers), And marked the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 384 Seiten
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead(') Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) (1) [If once the public notice is drawn to a poet, the talents he exhibits on a nearer view, the weight... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 394 Seiten
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead (') Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) (1) [If once the public notice is drawn to a poet, the talents he exhibits on a nearer view, the weight... | |
| A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 Seiten
...grammarian's work, would be to suppose that Newton made the stars or Werner the mountains. GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...effacing 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... | |
| Robley Dunglison - 1832 - 572 Seiten
...deeply affecting, but not without its consolation to the friends of the departed. He, who hath hent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled; Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept those lines where heauty lingers: And mark'd the mild, angelic... | |
| Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 Seiten
...little while after death, no perceptible alteration takes place in the organization of the body : — " Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers."* And it not unfrequently happens, that no post mortem examination, not even a microscopic inspection, could... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 Seiten
...of it as a spark; and they shah1 both burn together, and none shall quench them. ASPECT OF GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad, shrouded eye, That fires not, wins... | |
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