 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 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 lingering look behind ?... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 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 resigned, On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even from... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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 ?... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...beauty in writing when the words selected for the expression of au idea, convey, by their sound, some resemblance to the subject which they express, as...verse of the following stanza: " For who, to dumb forgetfnlness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - English language - 1851 - 204 pages
...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." 11. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned ?" 12. " None will flatter the poor ; 13. And the wise have very little power of flattering themselves."... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 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... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 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... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 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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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... 
