 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 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 ? On some fond... | |
 | George Dyer - Cambridge (England) - 1814 - 316 pages
...in his turn not to be overlooked as a trifler, or as a labourer about nothing, operose nihil agendo. 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 I On some fond breast... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 544 pages
...lately purchased in the burying-ground on the Calton. 9 Mr. Hume died at Edinburgh, August 25th, 1776. " 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?" A monument on... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...should not have a proper relish for life, or that we should be indifferent about its extinction ; " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering wish behind •"... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...clashing bray'd Horrible discord ; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Sound imitating Reluctance 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, liug'ring look behind... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...bray'd , Horrible discord ; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Sound, Imitating Reluctance. 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? SECTION VI. PARAGRAPHS... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...bray'd Horrible discord ; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Sound Imitating Reluctance. 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. Section II. OTHELLO'S... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 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 ? On some fond... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...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 ? On some fond breast... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 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 ? On some fond... | |
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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... 
