...50. THE BEAUTIFUL, BUT STILL AND MELANCHOLY ASPECT OF THE ONCE BUSY AND GLORIOUS SHORES OF GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where Beauty lingers), And marked the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits...

...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead(') Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) (1) [If once the public notice is drawn to a poet, the talents he exhibits on a nearer view, the weight...

...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead (') Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) (1) [If once the public notice is drawn to a poet, the talents he exhibits on a nearer view, the weight...

...grammarian's work, would be to suppose that Newton made the stars or Werner the mountains. GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits...

...deeply affecting, but not without its consolation to the friends of the departed. He, who hath hent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled; Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept those lines where heauty lingers: And mark'd the mild, angelic...

...little while after death, no perceptible alteration takes place in the organization of the body : — " Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers."* And it not unfrequently happens, that no post mortem examination, not even a microscopic inspection, could...

...of it as a spark; and they shah1 both burn together, and none shall quench them. ASPECT OF GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad, shrouded eye, That fires not, wins...

...application, more closely illustrate this piece than the passage from which it was professedly taken. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have ¡inept the lines where beauty lingers) And marked the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that...

...the circumstances explained, were sufficient to secure celebrity to this poem.— SIR E. BRYDCES.J And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And—but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not,...

...expressive aspect, which belongs to such an hour, and which Byron depicts in language how true to nature ! ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death be fled, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the...