 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...unletter'd 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...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... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pages
...th' unletter'd 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...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... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pages
...unletlcr'd 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...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? XXI. The poet seems here to have finished the reflections... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pages
...unletter'd 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...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... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...unletter'd 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...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind) , B3 On some fond bt east the parting soul relies,... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...th' unletter'd 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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...th* unlettered 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...unletter'd 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...being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies,... | |
 | Francesco Petrarca - 1808 - 314 pages
...cannot see, in the notes to Gray's Elegy, as giving the hint of the following stanza in it: 246 On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...cries, E'en in our ashes live' their wonted fires. Our poet, I believe, meant to say, that the warmth, and genius of his verse, when he and his mistress... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...unletter' d 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...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,... | |
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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 resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... 
