 | Collection - 1856 - 120 pages
...and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustick moralist to die. For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...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... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...: And many a_holy text around she strews, That teacji the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dnmb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering, look behind 1 On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Even from... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1856 - 372 pages
...with death. Comp. nf\l<t>pova Bvpdii, Hesiod. Sc. 428. Compare also jEn. iii. 140 ; and Gray's Elegy : For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Ncr cast one longing, lingering look behind. Eeddunl. Wakefield (ad Lucr. vi. 1196) thus explains... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. g feeds it : neither business, day, Nor cost one longing, lingering look behind ? | On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...teach3 the rustic moralist to die. .For who, to dumh Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious heing3 e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look hehind? On some fond hreast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 pages
...kind relative, and repeated his last words. " A beautiful day ; yes, but " Who to dumb forgctfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cost one longing, lingering look behind."* His life, with selections from his correspondence... | |
 | Theodore Clapp - 1857 - 450 pages
...nothing written by man ever impressed him more deeply than the following lines of Gray's Elegy : — " For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 pages
...and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind * 23. On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 pages
...But it is in stanzas like these exquisite ones that the failure is most complete and evident — ' For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond heart the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 pages
...on one which first of all seemed to strike him for its melody alone — Who, to dnmb forgctfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, ) Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Xor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? He said this aloud once or twice over. " To dumb... | |
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For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... 
