 | 1792 - 112 pages
...ling' ring , look behind ? On fome fond breaft the parting foul relies, Some pious drops the clofing eye requires : E'en from the tomb the voice of nature...cries , E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Doft in thefe line? their artlefs tale relate; If, chance,... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...day, Nor cast one longing ling' ring look behind? B 3 32 ELEGY On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires...cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th' unhonour'd Dead, Dost in these lines therr artless tale relate ; If chance,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires;...cries, E'en in our ashes* live their wonted fires. For thce, who mindful of th* unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If chance,... | |
 | Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...devouring fangs of time. In contemplating Priestley's Memoirs of Dr. Priestley, we may truly exclaim ; " E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries. E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires!" for, in this work, we perceive little more than an iteration of the pernicious doctrmes of the discontented... | |
 | Francesco Petrarca - Books - 1808 - 314 pages
...Gray's Elegy, as giving the hint of the following stanza in it: 246 On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing: eye requires...cries, E'en in our ashes live' their wonted fires. Our poet, I believe, meant to say, that the warmth, and genius of his verse, when he and his mistress... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 682 pages
...the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting sou! relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires;...cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead. Dost in the** lines their artless tale relate; If chance,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling', ii look behind ? On some fond breast tlic parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires;...tomb the voice of Nature cries. E'en in our ashes lire their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' nnhonour'd dead. Dost in these lines their artless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...On -»me fond breast the parting soul relies, Sun«- pious drops the closing eye requires; ITtn from . Egerton; Scatcherd and Lett For thee, who, mindful of th1 unhonour'd dead, Doit in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance,... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...forgetfuluess a prey. This pleasing anxious being t'er resign'd, On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires...cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...cheerful day ; Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ! .On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires...nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted sires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonor'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate,... | |
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On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th... 
