| William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...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 resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day ; Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teaeh the rustie moralist to die. an trr In eloeution, aetion, resign'd, Left the warm preeinets of the eheerful day, Nor east one longing, lingering look behind... | |
| Unitarianism - 1832 - 442 pages
...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?... | |
| English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...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 resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ?... | |
| Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...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 resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind... | |
| 1827 - 396 pages
...longed to live. He was anxious after a few more years of life. "'It was hard for him to part." " And who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned : Left the warm precmts of the cheerful day, Nor rast one longing linaerint! look behind ?" ÎS28.] MAGAZINE OF THE... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...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 resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind... | |
| Legacy - Women - 1827 - 332 pages
...ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen3 And waste its sweetness on the desert air. 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, ling' ring look behind.-'... | |
| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...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 resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ?... | |
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