 | American periodicals - 1855 - 594 pages
...minor compositions. The two concluding lines have been often quoted with commendation : — " We monrn that nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die in moulding Sheridan." The idea is forcible, and well expressed, but not original ; being borrowed almost literally, and without... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...proud preeminence, * Pitt, Fox, and Burke. FAITH. HELVELLTN. 327 Long shall we seek his likenesa — long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan ! BYRON. XXVIII. — FAITH. YE... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Recitations - 1858 - 450 pages
...Mirth, That humbler harmonist of care on earth, Survive within our souls, — while lives our sense Of pride in Merit's proud preeminence, Long shall...to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan ! BYIWX. XXVIII. — FAITH. YE... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...Mirth, That humbler Harmonist of care on Earth, Survive within our souls — while lives our sense Of pride in Merit's proud pre-eminence, Long shall...such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan. Dloduli, July 17, 1S10. STANZAS TO AUGUSTA. THOUGH the day of my destiny's over, And the star of my... | |
 | William Earle - 1859 - 374 pages
...and mirth, That humbler harmonist of care on earth, Survive within our souls, while lives our sense Of pride in merit's proud pre-eminence. Long shall...to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die, in moulding Sheridan ! EXTRACT FROM LORD BYRON'S LETTERS.... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 782 pages
...tried friends, and sung by England's then greatest living prêt, • Long shall we seek his equal — long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that nature formed hut one such man, And broke the die in moulding Sheridan ;' of Caledonia's gifted son, the author... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1870 - 834 pages
...reader need scarcely be reminded of the passage in the " Monody on the Death of Sheridan : — " " Long shall we seek his likeness — long in vain—...all of him which may remain — Sighing that Nature made but one such man, And broke the die in moulding Sheridan." f The same editor, in a later note... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1860 - 480 pages
...souls—while lives our sense Of pride in Merit's proud pre-eminence, Long shall we seek his likeness—long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die—in moulding Sheridan! ODE TO WINTER. WHEN first the fiery-mantled... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...Mirth, That humbler Harmonist of care on Earth, Survive within our souls — while lives our sense Of pride in Merit's proud pre-eminence, Long shall...such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan. DIODATI, July 17, 1816. ADDRESS. SPOKEN AT THE OPENING OF DRUBY-LANE THEATRE, SATUKDAY, OCTOBER 10,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...cicala, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks. BANES' Theocritus.— Idyll IX. Page 52. LIKENESS. — Long shall we seek his likeness — long in vain,...to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature foriu'd bat one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan. BYRON. — Monody on Sheridan,... | |
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While Powers of mind almost of boundless range, Complete in kind — as various in their change, While Eloquence — Wit — Poesy— and Mirth, That humbler Harmonist of care on Earth, Survive within our souls — while lives our sense Of pride in Merit's... 
