 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 384 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...to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature forin'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan I NOTES TO THE MONODY ON THE DEATH... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1874 - 458 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! Byron, The Dream of Eugene Aram. 'TWAS in the prime of summer time, An evening calm and cool, And four... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung. BYRON. The Ariosto of the North. BYRON : Childe Harold. Sighing that nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan. BYRON. And aye that volume on her lap is thrown, Which every heart of human mould endears; With Shakspeare's... | |
 | George Gaskell - Algeria - 1875 - 368 pages
...acknowledgment by two English writers. Byron ends a monody on Sheridan with the following jingle :— ' Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan,"* We know not which to admire more, the notion that Sheridan was the most perfect man ever created, or... | |
 | United States. 45th Cong., 2d sess., 1877-1878, United States. Congress - Legislators - 1878 - 144 pages
...acknowledged; no one whose death has left so great a void or been more deeply and sincerely mourned. t Long shall we seek his likeness— long In vain, And...remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man. Governor MORTON came of good old English stock that emigrated to this country about the time of the... | |
 | William Bates - 1879 - 138 pages
...now that ho has left us, it may be aptly said, as of another great humourist of a former day : — " Long shall we seek his likeness, — long in vain,...to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature fonu.d but one such man, And broke the die " J is as happy as the thought, and where the student of... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung. BYRON. The Ariosto of the North. BYRON : Childe Harold. Sighing that nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan. BYRON. And aye that volume on her lap is thrown, Which every heart of human mould endears; With Shakspeare's... | |
 | 1880 - 612 pages
...now that he has left us, it may aptly be said, as by another great humourist of a former day : — " Long shall we seek his likeness — long in vain,...to all of him which may remain, Sighing that nature formed but one such man, And broke the die." Mr. Bates feels like Mr. Ruskin that, " taking all in... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...to remain so while time cireles round ; For surely an age would be spent in the finding, SHERIDAJ1. Long shall we seek his likeness — long in vain,...such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan. Byron, Monody on Sheridan, last Lines. SHIPS, SHIPPING— see Navigation, Sailing, Sailors, Sea. Behold... | |
 | 1881 - 686 pages
...be so gifted, when we remember that in his veins runs the blood of Sheridan, of whom Byron sang — shall we seek his likeness, long in vain, And turn...to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature funned but onesuch man And broke the die— in moulding Sheridan.' Some one must have picked up some... | |
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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... 
