| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 páginas
...deck'd Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign' d, Left the warm precincts... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Mufle, ffs on the other hand, the cascades thai: in many places throw themselves from the very summit Oown For who, to dumb Forgetfulncss a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, I/ ft the warm precincts... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...of life Pursue the silent tenor of thy doom. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts... | |
| Joseph Story - 1831 - 46 páginas
...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... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...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... | |
| Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 páginas
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd » The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned — Left the... | |
| Noah Webster - 1833 - 202 páginas
...from 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,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind V The words longing and lingering express most forcibly the reluctance with which mankind quit this... | |
| Francis Wayland - 1833 - 388 páginas
...after him, that his name stood for something that was worthy of the character of man. For who, to dull forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind 1 This desire so universal, so natural to man, revelation hath no where forbidden. Let it only be directed... | |
| Francis Wayland - 1833 - 388 páginas
...his name stood for something that was worthy of the character of man. For who, to dull forgetfnlness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind 1 This desire so universal, so natural to man, revelation hath no where forbidden. Let it only be directed... | |
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