 | Dawlish (England) - 1817 - 296 pages
...yawning arch in rude confusion flung, Sad striking remnants of a former age'. To pity now might melt the spoiler's rage. Lo sunk to rest the wearied vot'ry sleeps, While o'er his urn the gloomy Cyprus weeps, Here silent pause, here draw the pensive sigh, Here musing learn to live, here learn... | |
 | Shirley Woolmer - Exeter (England) - 1821 - 120 pages
...a former age, " To pity now might melt the spoiler's rage ! " I/o, sunk to rest, the wearied votary sleeps, "While o'er his urn the gloomy cypress weeps....sigh— " Here musing learn to live, here learn to die." King Henry VIII. granted to John St. Leger, Esq. the dissolved monastery of Tor. From this gentleman... | |
 | Shirley Woolmer - 1821 - 116 pages
...a former age, ' To pity now might melt the spoiler's rage ! ' Lo, sunk to rest, the wearied votary sleeps, ' While o'er his urn the gloomy cypress weeps....pensive sigh.™ ' Here musing learn to live, here learu to die." King Henry VIII. granted to John St. Le^er, Esq. the dissolved monastery of Tor. From... | |
 | Marmaduke Middleton - 1822 - 102 pages
...a former age — • To pity now might melt the spoiler's rage. Lo, sunk to rest the wearied votary sleeps, While o'er his urn the gloomy cypress weeps...sigh, Here musing learn to live, here learn to die." At Dawlish next two happy days I spend With his fair daughters and a worthy friend ; One lovely face,... | |
 | E. Croydon - Torquay (England) - 1854 - 312 pages
...yawning arch in rude confusion flung : Sad striking remnants of a former age ; To pity now might melt the spoiler's rage. Lo, sunk to rest the wearied vot'ry...sigh — Here musing learn to live, here learn to die ! " These lines are not a bad specimen of the sort of rhyming which passed current for poetry at one... | |
 | Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1856 - 208 pages
...building, may, without enthusiasm, be said to render it the dim shadowing of the things which shall be. " Here silent pause— here draw the pensive sigh, Here musing learn to live— here learn to die ! " The dimensions of the choir are one hundred and thirty-seven feet in length, bv seventy-one feet... | |
 | 1863 - 304 pages
...yawning arch in rude confusion flung : Sad striking remnants of a former age ; To pity now might melt the spoiler's rage. Lo, sunk to rest the wearied vot'ry...sigh — Here musing learn to live, here learn to die !" These lines are not a bad specimen of the sort of rhyming which passed current for poetry at one... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1869 - 216 pages
...ye always ready; for in such an hour as ye ' think not the Son of Man cometh. MATT. xxiv. 44. r ERE, silent, pause — here draw the pensive sigh; > Here, musing, learn to live — here learn to die. REV. j. REEVE. SP HE evils that beset our path, & Who can prevent or cure? We stand upon the brink... | |
 | J. T. White (of Torquay, Eng.) - Torquay (England) - 1878 - 470 pages
...yawning arch in rude confusion flung ; Sad striking remnants of a former age, To pity now might move the spoiler's rage. Lo, sunk to rest, the wearied vot'ry...sigh, Here musing learn to live, here learn to die ! It ia inferred from an examination of the ground that the choir of the church was about 72 feet by... | |
 | Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1858 - 422 pages
...building, may, without enthusiasm, be said to render it the dim shadowing of the things which shall be. " Here silent pause — here draw the pensive sigh, Here musing learn to live — here learn to die !" The dimensions of the choir are one hundred and thirty-seven feet in length, by seventy- one feet... | |
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The shatter'd aisles, with clustering ivy hung, The yawning arch in rude confusion flung : Sad striking remnants of a former age ; To pity now might melt the spoiler's rage. Lo, sunk to rest the wearied vot'ry sleeps, While o'er his urn the gloomy cypress... 