 | Thomas Faulkner - 1820 - Počet stránok 526
...universal practice of raising sepulchral monuments, and is finely illustrated by the plaintive Gray : For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey This pleasing,...day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind. The most simple and natural kind of funeral monuments, and therefore the most ancient and universal,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - Počet stránok 548
...fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...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 from... | |
 | Richard Keynes - 1821 - Počet stránok 144
...lost, extinguished for ever ? He had deeply read human nature, whose pathetic enquiry ran thus— " For who to dumb forgetfulness, a prey, This pleasing,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? " Often has Mr. Field acknowledged to his friend, that he felt cleaving to life, though resigned... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1821 - Počet stránok 260
...elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. E3 22. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind? The poet seems here to have finished the reflections that at first occurred to him from the view of... | |
 | 1821 - Počet stránok 270
...fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralists to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...cheerful day Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behin On some fond breast the parting soul relies; Some pious drops the closing eye requires E'en from... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - Počet stránok 196
...fame and elegy supply: And many 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, T,oft the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? On some fond... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - Počet stránok 764
...passages of his works he is thought to have imitated Gray, as in those fine lines in his Elegy— " And who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd! " To the Last Letters of Ortis is added a short episodical tale, entitled " Lauretta," written in the... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - Počet stránok 322
...solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly pensive contemplation dwell*, And ever-musing melancholy reigns. Horrible discord; and the madding wheels Of brazen...bray'd Sound imitating reluctance. For who, to dumb forgetfulncss a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Počet stránok 284
...elegy supply: [Muse, And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1822 - Počet stránok 240
...from Gray's Elegy, written in a country church yard, are distinguished by a happy choice of words. " 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, lingering look behind?"... | |
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Horrible discord; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Battle. -Arms on armour clashing bray'd Sound imitating reluctance. for who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd; left the warm precincts of the cheerful... 
