| 1833 - 244 páginas
...illustrations of the poet's fancy ; may we not in every country see — ' Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd muse, ' The place of fame and elegy supply...strews, ' That teach the rustic moralist to die.' ' The latter part of your quotation,' said Neville, ' is not so frequent ; in general the inscriptions... | |
| 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, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1834 - 524 páginas
...told 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, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
| Sir Jerom Murch - 1835 - 612 páginas
...and anxiety for the improvement of the living. v " Their names, their years spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." The origin and exact age of the society at Frenchay are involved in uncertainty. My earliest information... | |
| Moses Severance - 1835 - 314 páginas
...Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd mn« 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 — ,'g . '"•eft... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 420 páginas
...and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 6 For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precints of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind? 7 On some fond breast the... | |
| Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 páginas
..."the rude forefathers of the hamlet" he proceeds; "Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many...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... | |
| 1836 - 558 páginas
...decked Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name.their years.spelt by the unlettered most, The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy...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 ?... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 páginas
...nigh, Their names, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply 5 And many a holy text around she strews—• That...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... | |
| George Home - 1837 - 364 páginas
...Westminster Abbey, under the monument erected to his memory by his grateful country." CHAPTER VI. " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cost one longing lingering look behind.... | |
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