 | Thomas Stackhouse - Great Britain - 1833 - 174 pages
...matter. The poet Gray expresses himself very beautifully in his appeal to this universal feeling ; • " 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, liug'ring look behind.... | |
 | William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...been repaired in the jear 1759, by Safin's country men. "List, list, oh list!" " More last words." " 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."... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...elegy supply : [Muse, 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... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around 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 the warm precincts of the cheerful day — *• Nor cast one longing, lingering... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...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 ?... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...He was interred yesterday, at a place he lately purchased in the burying ground on the Calton. % " 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 - 1839 - 216 pages
...œil, apercevant le ténébreux séjour, Ne jette un long regard vers l'enceinte du jour ? ххп. 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 Faulkner - Hammersmith (England) - 1839 - 482 pages
...overlooked as a trifler, or as a labourer who has busied himself about nothing." " Operose nihil agenda." " 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.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 pages
...avvolse, E lasciô le contrade aime del cielo, Ne un sospiroso sguardo indietro volse? XXII. XXII. XXII. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd ; Leftjji^varm precincts of the cheerful day, cast one longing, lingering look behind ? (IU... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1839 - 154 pages
...avvolse, E lascio le contrade alme del cielo, Ne un sospiroso sguardo indietro volse ? XXII. XXII. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd ; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, nv f(p' rfropi ^fv\ OVTIS aSaKpvrl (jfu'Xw... | |
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