 | 1821 - 712 páginas
...by the waiul of an enchanter, rather than reared by human hands. Myst. of Udol. v. Í. p. 34. Byron. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, ite. See the rest of this beautiful passage, »s far as Such is the aspect of this shore, Tis Greece,... | |
 | 1813 - 574 páginas
...beauty, but which is an instance of the extended simile in which this poet so delights to indulge. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of'-death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last, of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 páginas
...as a child sleeps, and so passed away. His last appearance was like that described by the poet — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild, angelic... | |
 | William Macgregor Stirling - 1815 - 230 páginas
...subsided, one of the loftiest poets of this, or of any other age or country, alludes, when he says, — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled .... .... Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 222 páginas
...seraphs they assail'd, And fixed, on heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell — 65 So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! i He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 páginas
...darken o'er the fair domain. It is as though the fiends prevailed Against the seraphs they assailed, And, fixed 'on heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! * He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 486 páginas
...darken o'er the fair domain. It is as though the fiends prevailed Against the seraphs they assailed, And, fixed on heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell ; - So soft the scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first... | |
 | 1872 - 1200 páginas
...and but for a few hours, after the spirit is not there." * Life, vol. i, p. 401. " Ha who hath beat him o'er the dead. Ere the first day of death is fled ; . , , , Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And mark'd the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 402 páginas
...the fair domain. It is as though the fiends prevail'd Against the seraphs they assail'd, And, fix'd on heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors...tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 páginas
...him — but to spare ! Strange — that where all is peace beside There passion riots in her pride, And lust and rapine wildly reign To darken o'er the...The freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first... | |
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He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers... 
