...LEARNER'S POETIC TASK BOOK. STUDIOUS CONTEMPLATION. ROBERT SOUTHEY. MY days among the dead are pass'd; The mighty minds of old : My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, And seek relief in woe; And while I understand...

...Pliny's 'Letters,' viii. 19, 1, there is an interesting parallel to Southey's well-known lines:— With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe. Pliny's words are : — " Et gaudium mihi et solocium in litteris, nihilqn* tarn lœtum quod his Isetius,...

...himself; Along by-paths and in pleasant ways, Caring as little for censure as praise." * *• * ' * " My vitt, Throw and Co night and day. " With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe ; And while I understand...

...himself; Along by-paths and in pleasant ways, Caring as little for censure as praise." * » * * * " My days among the Dead are past ; Around me I behold,...never-failing friends are they With whom I converse night and day. " With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe ; And while I understand...

...himself; Along by-paths and in pleasant ways, Caring as little for censure as praise." • * • • " My days among the Dead are past ; Around me I behold...never-failing friends are they With whom I converse night and day. " With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in wo ; And while I understand and...

...quoting here his own lines on the subject, written a few years before this period of his life: — ' 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,...

...light up the eye of sadness and sorrow. BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. MY days among the dead are past; Avound 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. With them I take delight in weal,...

...casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds оГ old : My n.-i . T-iiuliii',' friends are they, With whom 1 converse, day by day. ' With them I take delight in...woe ; And while I understand and feel How much to (hem I owe. My cheeks have often been bedewed 1 My thought« are with the dead ; with them I live in...

...quoting here his own lines on the subject, written a few years before this period of his life : " My days among the dead are past ; Around me I behold,...The mighty minds of old ; My never-failing friends arc they, With whom 1 converse day by day. "With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe...

...time before his last illness : 1 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-failing friends are they, With whom I convene, day by day. ' With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief In woe ; And while I understand...