| English essays - 1821 - 712 pages
...by the waiul of an enchanter, rather than reared by human hands. Myst. of Udol. v. Í. p. 34. Byron. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, ite. See the rest of this beautiful passage, »s far as Such is the aspect of this shore, Tis Greece,... | |
| 1813 - 574 pages
...beauty, but which is an instance of the extended simile in which this poet so delights to indulge. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of'-death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last, of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's... | |
| 1812 - 576 pages
...and more exquisitely finished, than any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; ( Before Decay's effacing fingers... | |
| 1813 - 662 pages
...shore, Rush the night-prowlers on the prey, And turn to groans his roundelay.! i>. 3. V<», X. Tt ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers... | |
| English literature - 1813 - 580 pages
...beauty, but which is an instance of the extended simile in which this poet so delights to indulge. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers... | |
| 1813 - 550 pages
...and more exquisitely finished, than any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere, the first day of death is fled;" The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers... | |
| English literature - 1813 - 1102 pages
...on an eastern audience, and of the grotesque declamation and gestures of the Turkish story-teller. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1813 - 90 pages
...inheritors of hell — 65 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 day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, 10 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing... | |
| 1813 - 560 pages
...delight; and we cannot refrain from quoting the following highly wrought and characteristic specimen. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fmgers... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...consul at Athens. — FORT FOLIO. Receives him by the lovely light That bent becomes an eastern night. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers... | |
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