 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...teach the rustic Moralist to die. 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 ling'ring look behind ? Hark I how the sacred calm, that breathes around, Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...stick moralist to ilie\ For who', to dumb forgetfulness a prey', This pleasing', anxious being e'erd resigned'; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day', Nor cast one longing', ling'ring look behind'? On some fund breast the parting soul relies'; Some pious drops the closing eye requires';... | |
 | Thomas Henry White - Europe - 1845 - 474 pages
...Bard of the Village churchyard said 0 ! 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 ling'ring look behind ! But these doomed wretches had not a moment allowed to look back upon the bright sunshine they... | |
 | Thomas Henry White - Europe - 1845 - 492 pages
...Bard of the Village churchyard said 0 ! 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 ling'ring look behind ! But these doomed wretches had not a moment allowed to look back upon the bright sunshine they... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...form, and doth the body moke. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'ei resigned, 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 pious drops the closing eye requires : Ev*n... | |
 | 1846 - 544 pages
...prize the boon of being : — " For who, to dull forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind I" But the love of life has its limits as well as its uses. It may be vanquished ; it may be... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - Medical ethics - 1849 - 492 pages
...thousand objects of endearment. " 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, ling'ring look behind?" It is well that the hope of recovery should occasionally light up in cases which are certain... | |
 | National association for the protection of British industry and capital - 1849 - 56 pages
...The poet has beautifully asked, " 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, ling'ring look behind ?" Throughout all creation there are only two beings who can surrender their existence without... | |
 | 1851 - 638 pages
...to such it is a condition not entirely free from dread. "For who, to dumh forgotfulnesa a prey, Thie pleasing, anxious heing e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ?" Few can think of the dissolution of the body, of... | |
 | Samuel Simon Schmucker, S. S. (Samuel Simon) Schmucker - History - 1855 - 332 pages
...Grey, we may confidently inquire, " 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, ling'ring look behind 1" This love of life leads us to a proper care of our health, and to all necessary acts of self-defence... | |
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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 ling'ring look behind... 
