 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 resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor...  A Treatise on English Punctuation - Page 86by John Wilson - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies. Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Kv'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. I'orthec,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...resign'd ; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in pur ashes live their wonted sires. For thee,... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. ADDRESS TO LORD BYRON. KNOW'ST thou the land of the mountain and flood, Where the pine of the forest... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look beh1nd ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes 3 live their wonted fires *. For thee,... | |
 | William Benbow - Church of England - 1823 - 336 pages
...the coffins to obtain luxuries are the real motives for this unhallowed plunder of the beloved dead. Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Even in our ashes live their hallowed fires. For our parts, we are accustomed to look with reverence and respect to the place were... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...e'erfresign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day ; Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? . On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Kv'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...make it the ghastly monster it is. We think how we should feel, not how the dead feel. " Still from the tomb the voice of nature cries ; Even in our ashes live their wonted fires!" There is an admirable passage on this subject in TUCKER'S Light of Nature Pursued, which I shall transcribe,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...make it the ghastly monster it is. We think how we should feel, not how the dead feel. " Still from the tomb the voice of nature cries ; Even in our ashes live their wonted fires !" There is an admirable passage on this subject in TUCKER'S Light of Nature Pursued, which I shall... | |
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