 | British poets - 1809 - 526 sivua
...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, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ?... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 sivua
...bear ; " Full many a flower is 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, " Iict't the warm precincts of the cheerful day, " Nor cast one longing, ling'ving look behind."... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 sivua
...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, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ?... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 266 sivua
...elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. XXII. 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, lingering look behind... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 sivua
...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, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ?... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 sivua
...Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. XXI. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, XXII. 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, lingering look behind... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 518 sivua
...universal practice of raising .Sepulchral Monuments, and js finely illustrated by the plaintive Gray : For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd ; - Left tiie warm precincts of the cliearful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'nng louk, behind... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 sivua
...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, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 544 sivua
...lately purchased in the burying-ground on the Calton. 9 Mr. Hume died at Edinburgh, August 25th, 1776. " 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, lingering look behind?"... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 sivua
...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, Left the warm precincts ot the cheerful day, Nor 1 cast one longing, ling'ring, look behind... | |
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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... 
