 Muse, The place of 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, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor...  A Treatise on English Punctuation - Page 86by John Wilson - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? 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,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies; Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries; Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of 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 ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1827 - 568 pages
...enabling us to settle many disputed points in the habitsand the private history of our ancestors : " Even from the tomb, the voice of nature cries, Even in our ashes, lire their wonted fires 1" In the present instance, this voice would, in all probability have continued... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing— lingering look behind '. On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious...cries, Even in our ashes, live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonor'd dead, Dost, in these lines, their artless tale relate, By chance... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...resigned,— Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,— Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies : Some pious...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If, chance,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing — lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious...Nature cries, Even in our ashes, live their wonted tires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonor'd dead, Dost, in these lines, their artless tale relate,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ( 7 On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb, the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. 8 For thee,... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...resigned, — Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? 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,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...— Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, — Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies : Some pious...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If, chance,... | |
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