Muse, The place of 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 anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Página 50por Thomas Gray - 1821 - 134 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 páginas
...bray'd Horrible discord ; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Sound imitating reluctance. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd ; Xeft the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? SECTION... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 páginas
...bray'd Horrible discord ; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. / Sound imitating reluctance. This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd ; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longingl ling'ring look behind ? SECTION VI. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey,... | |
| John Kitto - 1825 - 244 páginas
...difficult 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... | |
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 páginas
...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse The place of faîne and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That...a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, S'ils n'ont pas des destins affronté la menace, Fait tonner au Sénat leur éloquente audace, D'un... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 páginas
...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 text around she strews, That...forgetfulness a prey, -• ? This pleasing anxious being e'er resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind... | |
| Oxonian - 1826 - 318 páginas
...revolting, than even that, which excites the astonishment of the poet. For wbo, to dumb forgot fulness, a prey % This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd?...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering' look, behind? No ! my every thought was devoted to the contemplation of Laura's charms, her wit, or her beauty; every... | |
| John Henry Druery - 1826 - 488 páginas
...hamlet sleep. " " Their name their years spelt by th' unktter'd muse, " The place of fame and elegy supply: " And many a holy text around she strews, " That teach the rustic moralist to die. " The patronage of Somerleyton rectory is rested in the Rev. George Anguish, the incumbent to which... | |
| John Henry Druery - 1826 - 476 páginas
...hamlet sleep. " " Their name their years spelt by th' unletter'd muse, " The place of fame and elegy supply: " And many a holy text around she strews, " That teach the rustic moralist to die. " The patronage of Somerleyton rectory is rested in the Rev. George Anguish, the incumbent to which... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 224 páginas
...Battle. Arms on armour, clashing, bray'd Horrible discord; and the madding wheels ()f brazen fury, rag'd. This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, Hng'ring look behind? Sound imitating Reluctance. For who, to dumb forgetfulness... | |
| 1832 - 442 páginas
...pure and holy faith be thus evil spoken of! Rapturous deaths we consider unnatural to humanity, — For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign' d— Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?... | |
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