| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...resigned, Left the wann precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind! On Fh*⥎VxS_ٰ# ^ +Q E~2V g 2"V s>> g [ lX o For thee, who, mindful of the unhonoured dead, Dost in thewe lines their artless tale relate; If chance,... | |
| 1849 - 600 pages
...how comely in critical old age ! Any farther fault to find with our friend Mitford ? to NORTH. " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Even in oar ashes live their wonted fires." " ' Pious drops' is from Ovid — piae lachrymae ; ' closing eye'... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...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...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind '? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even from... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing bert Chambers ! On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye require* ; Even from... | |
| James Johnson - 1844 - 406 pages
...towards the coast, and within a couple of miles of Swords, we come to Portrane. THE WIDOW'S TOWER. Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries — Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." IN all ages and countries monuments have been raised to the memory of the dead. The motives which led... | |
| Anne MacVicar Grant - 1845 - 350 pages
...to me in particular, why should I be so desirous of being remembered and even regretted ? — " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." This may be, certainly is, obscure to the eye, but not so to the heart, which acknowledges the meaning... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
...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...day, — Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eve requires ; Even from... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...take, For soul is form, and doth the body moke. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey. This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind Т On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Kv'u from... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For4 who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops5 the closing eye requires ; Even from... | |
| Sunset - 1845 - 120 pages
...mortal delight and endearment which it involves : " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned; Left the warm precincts...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ?" It is attended by anxious forehodings and guilty apprehensions, which nature knows not how to repress... | |
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