| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 páginas
...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 resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? Hark I how the sacred calm, that breathes... | |
| 1814 - 568 páginas
...should not have a proper relish for life, or that we should be indifferent about its extinction ; " 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 wish behind •" But as we know we must die, we should... | |
| Noah Webster - 1822 - 246 páginas
...Gray's Elegy, written in a country church yard, are distinguished by a happy choice of words. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned ? Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor east one longing, lingering look behind?" The words longing and lingering express... | |
| John Kitto - 1825 - 244 páginas
...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 anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering, look behind ? As for myself— witness every feeling... | |
| 1827 - 386 páginas
...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 anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day. Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind!" A monument on that airy elevated cemetry,... | |
| 1827 - 396 páginas
...longed to live. He was anxious after a few more years of life. "'It was hard for him to part." " And who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned : Left the warm precmts of the cheerful day, Nor rast one longing linaerint! look behind ?" ÎS28.] MAGAZINE OF THE... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 páginas
...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,...being e'er resigned,— Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,— Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting... | |
| George Merriam - 1828 - 282 páginas
...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,...being e'er resigned, — Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 páginas
...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,...being e'er resigned, — Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, — Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting... | |
| Joseph Story - 1831 - 50 páginas
...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,...anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul... | |
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