 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...œil, apercevant le ténébreux séjour, Ne jette un long regard vers l'enceinte du jour ? ххп. 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 ? >iû> TLV гф... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 pages
...avvolse, E lasciô le contrade aime del cielo, Ne un sospiroso sguardo indietro volse? XXII. XXII. XXII. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd ; Leftjji^varm precincts of the cheerful day, cast one longing, lingering look behind ? (IU ^; W' л... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1839 - 262 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... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...centrally Augustan in its concerns, and gives us some valuable clues to the rest of Augustan poetry. 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? (lines 85-8) On... | |
 | Douglas Lane Patey, Timothy Keegan - Literary Collections - 1985 - 280 pages
...two good stanzas in Gray's poetry, which are in his 'Elegy in a Country Churchyard.'" This was one: 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?... | |
 | Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - Education - 1991 - 292 pages
...Country Church Yard, 1751,1. 88; the narrator, contemplating the gravestones in the churchyard, asks: 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? See "Elegy Written... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 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 breast... | |
 | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles - Fiction - 1989 - 452 pages
...her as she faced Haworth like a soldier facing execution. 'Tell me,' she said. BOOK THREE The Anchor 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 ling'ring look behind?... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 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 ling'ring look behind?... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 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?... | |
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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... 
