| Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...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 cast one longing ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...holy text around she strews, That irai.h the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulntss a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er 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... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...the swains, the amiable poet falls into a very natural reflection : For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? Of this art POPE has exhibited some specimens... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...the swains, the amiable poet falls into a very natural reflection : For who, to dumb forgetfulnessa prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind f Of this art POPE has exhibited some specimens... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dvmb Forgetfulness a prey, " 'i This pleasing, anxious being e'er 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
...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 chearful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies,... | |
| George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...born to blush unseen, " And waste its sweetness on the desart air." * For who to-dumb forgetfulness a prey' " This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,*' Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, " Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind." The former of these Mr. Gray has himself imitated,... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...lines, the sound of the verse is made to imitate reluctance of uiiui. For who- to Humb forgctfolness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring'look behind? We have now given sufficient openings into this subject:... | |
| Francesco Petrarca - Books - 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 drops the closing: eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live' their wonted fires. Our poet,... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...around he strews, ;<, -. That teach the rustic moralist to die. ., ..,,. For who, to dumbforgetfulness,a prey, -, .,. .., This pleasing anxious being e'er 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... | |
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