 | 1869 - 406 Seiten
...reliability. He died in 1845. He has described himself and his love of books in the following words : — "My days among the dead are past ; Around me I behold...casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old : My never failing friends are they. With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal,... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1841 - 424 Seiten
...of the future ! Listen how sweetly one of the first of modern men apostrophises his books : — " My days among the dead are past ; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty miuds of old ; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. " With them I take... | |
 | 1841 - 276 Seiten
...JOHNSON. T.INI:S BY Dii. soirniLV ON Bis I.IKIIAUV. MY days among the dead are passed, Around me 1 behold Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old ; My never-fading friends are they With whom 1 commune day by day With them I take delight in weal, And... | |
 | 1843 - 676 Seiten
...more ample perhaps than were ever before possessed by one whose whole estate was in his inkstand. My days among the dead are past ; Around me I behold,...minds of old : My never-failing friends are they, vhom I converse day by day. My neve With wl U iUi them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe... | |
 | 1843 - 602 Seiten
...before possessed by one whose whole estate was in liis inkstand. My days among the dead are pant ; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are...old : My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converge day by day. With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe; And when I understand... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 612 Seiten
...more ample perhap* than were ever before possessed by one whose whole estate was in his inkstand. My days among the dead are past ; Around me I behold,...these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old : er-failin My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 Seiten
...inkstand. My days among the dead are past ; Around глв I behold, Where'er these casual eyes arc cast, The mighty minds of old : My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by duy. With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe; And when I understand and feel How much... | |
 | 1844 - 628 Seiten
...gratifications, are thus playfully detailed by himself in verse : — " My days among the dead are pass'd ; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are...never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day hy day. With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe ; And when I understand and feel How... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...cherished and constant companions. In one of his poems, he says — My days among the dead are passed ; $ < $ night and day. It is melancholy to reflect, that for nearly three years preceding his death, Mr Southey... | |
 | 1850 - 638 Seiten
...Heaven, with himself; Along by-paths and in pleasant ways, faring as little for censure as praise. My days among the dead are past ; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, Tho mighty minds of old : My never-tailing friends arc they With whom I converse night and day. With... | |
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My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. 
