 | Frederick Dinsdale - English language - 1849 - 192 pages
...cover the whole body also." — Cornucopia, by Thos. Johnson, 1596. " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." Webster's White Devil (Dyce's Ed. 1830, vol. i, p. 146). " Covering with moss the dead's unclosed eye,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates : — Call for the robin red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole, The ant, the fleld-monse, and the mole, To raise him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And, when gray tombs are... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Birds - 1852 - 502 pages
...old writers. Thus, John Webster, who wrote in 1630 — 1638, says:— " Call for the robin redbreast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Michael Dray ton too alludes to it: — " Covering with moss the dead's unclosed eye, The little redbreast... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 644 pages
...several old writers. Thus, John Webster, who wrote in 1630-38, says : — " Call for the robin redbreast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of enburied men." Michael Drayton too alludes to it : — " Covering with moss the dead's unclos'd eye,... | |
 | Robert Bell - English drama - 1854 - 290 pages
...His personal history is buried in obscurity.] THE WHITE DEVIL; OR, V1TTORIA COROMBONA. l6l2. A DIRGE. CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm; • But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,... | |
 | Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1854 - 282 pages
...His personal history is buried in obscurity.] THE WHITE DEVIL; OR, VITTORIA COROMBONA. 1612. ADIRQ E. for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady...mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm; But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1855 - 440 pages
...that intenseness of feeling which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates." CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm ; But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,... | |
 | John Webster - English drama - 1857 - 296 pages
...Cor. Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, [Cornelia doth this in several forms of distraction. Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves...mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; But keep the wolf far thence, that'sfoe to men, For... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - Drama - 1857 - 424 pages
..." Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren,^ [CORNELIA doth this in several forms of distraction. Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves...The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillochs that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm : But keep the wolf... | |
 | John Webster - English drama - 1857 - 298 pages
...the wren, [Cornelia doth this in several forms of distraction. Since o'er shady groves they Jiover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dolt The ant, theßeld-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when... | |
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Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall... 
