 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
 | Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 pages
...supported by one of his children, he repeated, with exquisite pathos, the beautiful lines of Gray — " On some fond breast the parting soul relies : Some pious drops the closing eye requires." When, on his arrival at Helston, he found himself so little affected by travelling, his persuasion... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Queens - 1834 - 524 pages
...resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind 1 '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. " It is... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? , t • • • i • On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; f Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. ANECDOTE... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Birds - 1835 - 496 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 ; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires!' And what... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 534 pages
...his last about seven, having remained nearly insensible since Daw saw him yesterday forenoon. ' On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ;' But no such solace or tribute attended his forlorn death. " I wish that I were once more with my... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...resigned, 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 ; E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries ; E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." It is... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...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 : i '••, Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, "\. Even in our ashes live their wonted... | |
 | Baptists - 1848 - 668 pages
...which death shall leave behind. The voice operating is here the voice of nature and of experience. " 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." " Bury... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...behind ? Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; In connection with the above observations, we present to our readers a description of some remarkable... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1836 - 748 pages
...rustic moralist to die.' This is ungrammatical. ' Many a holy text that teaches,' it ought to be. ' 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.' ' Pious drops'... | |
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