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" How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is... "
Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack - Page 163
1817
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 7

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 412 pages
...I, O Fear, will dwell with thee .' 15 ODE. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1746. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By Fairy hands...
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Miscellaneous Selections and Original Pieces: In Prose and Verse ...

Elizabeth Chase - 1821 - 248 pages
...lovely nymph, in such a lovely bower. ODE — BT MR. WILLIAM COLLINS.. How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ; When Spring, with dewy fmgers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...their country's wishes bless'd! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall a...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...Returns to derk their lullow'd mould, Shi- thi •>••• shall dross a sweeter sod Than t'-incy% feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There honor ctwnet, a pilgrim grey* To blr •« the turf that wraps their clay, And/rtmfom shall a...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

English poetry - 1822 - 820 pages
...feeling from mankind; indeed their labours which survive themselves are for ever creatmg it. Not only " By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung." On the 27th Mr. John Scott. He was a native of Scotland, and received his education in the university...
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With ..., Volume 3

Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 468 pages
...intellect withers and languishes, beneath the influence of a pestilence. How sleep tbc brave, who sink to' rest, By all their country's wishes blest '. When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Iteturns to deck their hallow'd mould ; She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have...
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With ..., Volume 2

Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 436 pages
...of the human race ; and whose honourable names are echoed with rapture, even through the universe ! By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Fancy comes, at twilight grey, To bless the turf, that wraps their clay ; And Pity does a while...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English ...

William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...such scenes from every future view , ODE, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDOCXLVI. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands...
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The Christian Psalmist: Or, Hymns, Selected and Original, with an ...

James Montgomery - Hymns - 1825 - 482 pages
...pathos with fancy, grandeur with simplicity, and romance with reality: " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy-hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes* a pilgrim...
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A Musical Biography: Or, Sketches of the Lives and Writings of Eminent ...

Music - 1825 - 262 pages
...O harmony," with awful sound. Wcbbes Gleet-. ,f" When winds breathe soft along the silent deep, J " By fairy hands their knell is rung, ," By forms unseen their dirge is sung." Ibid. Collini, MISS STEPHENS The Father of this accomplished vocalist was a Carver and Gilder in Park...
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