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... The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins - Page 36by John Milton - 1860Full view - About this book
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 pages
...deck'd Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy...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?... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy...teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgelfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy...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?... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...of life Pursue the silent tenor of thy doom. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy...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 ?... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Mufle, ffs on the other hand, the cascades thai: in many places throw themselves from the very summit Oown Forgetfulncss a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, I/ ft the warm precincts of the cheerful... | |
| Joseph Story - Cemeteries - 1831 - 46 pages
...us this truth in lines of transcendant beauty and force, which find a response in every breast ;— For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul reliea ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from... | |
| Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 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,...day — Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind 'f 23. On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Even... | |
| Noah Webster - English language - 1833 - 202 pages
...from Gray's Elegy written in a Country Church-yard, are distinguished by a happy choice of words. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind V The words longing and lingering express most forcibly the reluctance with which mankind quit this... | |
| Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd The place of fame and elegy supply : [Muse, And many a holy text around she strews, That teach...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... | |
| Francis Wayland - Sermons, American - 1833 - 388 pages
...after him, that his name stood for something that was worthy of the character of man. For who, to dull forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind 1 This desire so universal, so natural to man, revelation hath no where forbidden. Let it only be directed... | |
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