 | 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, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...and e!egy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 80 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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?' And again : — ' 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 ?' Here we have... | |
 | 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, anxious being e'er resigned — Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day — Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 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 resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
 | William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...been repaired in the jear 1759, by Safin's country men. "List, list, oh list!" " More last words." " 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." To the Rev. the... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - Great Britain - 1833 - 174 pages
...matter. The poet Gray expresses himself very beautifully in his appeal to this universal feeling ; • " 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. " If there exists... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...elegy supply : [Muse, 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... | |
 | 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, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Queens - 1834 - 524 pages
...told 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, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
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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... 
