 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 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...resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? Hark I how the sacred calm, that breathes around,... | |
 | 1814 - 568 pages
...should not have a proper relish for life, or that we should be indifferent about its extinction ; " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering wish behind •" But as we know we must die, we should be at all times ready to meet our fate when... | |
 | Scepticism - 1814 - 258 pages
...a state, which they know by experience, to be fertile in blessings. " For who to dull forgetfulncss a prey, •' This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned ; " Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, " Nor cast one longing ling'riug look behind ?"* That a desperate sinner, too impatient to bear... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1822 - 246 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...resigned ? Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor east one longing, lingering look behind?" The words longing and lingering express most forcibly... | |
 | 1847 - 390 pages
...children of the kingdom. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being ere resigned ; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?" — Gray. So sings one, who here at least speaks the language of the earth. Contrast the language of... | |
 | John Kitto - 1825 - 244 pages
...difficult to assign a cause for that reluctance to die which even the wisest aud the best may experience ; For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering, look behind ? As for myself— witness every feeling of my heart, tbat years have intervened since I contemplated... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, 85 This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? blance of this and the four next lines to the following of Celio Magno, is pointed out in the number... | |
 | 998 pages
...every mortal delight and endearment, which it involves : 41 For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, Thii pleasing, anxious being, e'er resigned ; Left the...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ?" it is attended by anxious forebodings and guilty apprehensions, which nature knows not how to repress... | |
 | 1827 - 386 pages
...He was interred yesterday, at a place he lately purchased in the bury, ing-ground on the Gallon. u For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...day. Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind!" A monument on that airy elevated cemetry, which, on account of a magnificent terrace now carried round... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 408 pages
...lately purchased in the burying-ground on the Gallon. 41 For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, Tbis pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ! " A monument on that airy elevated cemetry, which, on account of a magnificent terrace now carried... | |
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