Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. Practical Elocution - Page 307by Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1826 - 602 pages
...accomplishments any one can possess are a love of Nature and of books. THE DEPARTURE. -" Tboa símil lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings,...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sephulchre." BRYANT. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirits' distant shore ? Earth's mightiest men,... | |
| American poetry - 1822 - 298 pages
...place Shalt thou retire alone — :nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings,...hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between... | |
| Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...that any one has more vividly described the Earth as 'the great tomb of man.' ' The hills, Hock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in...complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and, pourcJ round all, Old ocean's grey and melancholy wasteAre but the solemn decorations all Of the great... | |
| 1822 - 858 pages
...resting-place Shalt thou retire alone — nor conld'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world— with kings,...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All iu one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-rihb'd and ancient as the sun,.— the vales Stretching in... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1822 - 824 pages
...Thou shah lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the carth-i-the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the rales Stretching in pensive quietness between... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...place Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings,...hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between... | |
| Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...resting-place Shalt thou retire alone — nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent: thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings,...hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between... | |
| Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...resting-place Shalt thou Tetire alone — nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings,...hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between... | |
| Literature - 1825 - 412 pages
...wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with king1 The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good,...hoary seers of ages past. All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between... | |
| Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...— the wise, the go»d, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, —...between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move Tn majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round Old ocean's grey... | |
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