 Tor 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 ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye...  Little Classics: Poems, lyrical - Sida 91redigerad av - 1877Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 sidor
...But it is in stanzas like these exquisite ones that the failure is most complete and evident— ' For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.' On some... | |
 | Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 sidor
...Horrible discord ; and the maddening wheels, ©f brazen fury rag'dSound imitating reluctance. : For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, • : This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned j* • -' Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, ': Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind,... | |
 | 1814 - 568 sidor
...should not have a proper relish for life, or that we should be indifferent about its extinction; " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious...of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering wish behind ?" But as we know we must die, we should be at all times ready to meet our fate when the... | |
 | Scepticism - 1814 - 258 sidor
...a state, which they know by experience, to be fertile in blessings. " For who to dull forgetfulncss a prey, •' This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned ; " Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, " Nor cast one longing ling'riug look behind ?"* That a desperate sinner, too impatient to bear... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 316 sidor
...in his turn not to be overlooked as a trifler, or as a labourer about nothing, operose nihil agenda. Tor 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 lingering look behind 1... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1815 - 122 sidor
...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...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1822 - 240 sidor
...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...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?" The words longing and lingering express most forcibly the reluctance with which mankind quit this state... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1822 - 246 sidor
...nightingale's song. The first he does by two slow spondees, and the last by four very rapid syllables. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious...resigned ? Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor east one longing, lingering look behind?" The words longing and lingering express most forcibly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 728 sidor
...around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, 85 This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? blance of this and the four next lines to the following of Celio Magno, is pointed out in the number... | |
 | 1827 - 394 sidor
...He was interred yesterday, at a place he lately purchased in the burvmg-ground on the Calton. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind:" A monument on that airy elevated cemetry, which, on account of a magnificent terrace now carried round... | |
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