 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1839 - 500 pages
...world thus. It was unmanly — " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being o'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind !" If I could not leave the world in the elevation of Christian hope, let me, at least, leave it in... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - Hammersmith (England) - 1839 - 486 pages
...labourer who has busied himself about nothing." " Operose nihil ayenda." " 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. On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1839 - 154 pages
...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 avfpos o(nrf KaKv^fV Tas VirfVfp6f (f>vcris TO.V (pwvav... | |
 | George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 pages
...transcendant beauty and force, which find a response in every breast : " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behmd ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...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 ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...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, ? \ On some fond breast , the parting soul , relies'... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 298 pages
...holy text around she strews That teach the rustick moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? 186 Vedou-lhe o fado; e não vedou |ómente... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Death - 1845 - 92 pages
...teach the rustic moralist to die. :J.'iiNE\V YOPK AMOK 1>-\OX AND XXII. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? XXIII. On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires ;... | |
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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 resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... 
