 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 356 pages
...strenuous endeavor to give them an unequivocally plaintive character, until it is distinctly marked. My mother, when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son ? Wretch, even then, life's journey just begun. Perhaps... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...were her own: And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream that thou art she. My mother! when I learned {hat thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 360 pages
...distinctly marked. Let the following sentences then be read with a conspicuously plaintive expression. My mother, when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I ehed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son ? Wretch, even then, life's journey just begun. Perhaps... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...were her own : And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream, that thou art she. My mother ! when I learnt that thou wast deĢ4 Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...were her own ; And, while that love renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream...dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ' Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's Journey just begun ? Perhaps... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...were her own : And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream, that thou art she. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 pages
...fifty years afterwards, on the receipt of her portrait from a relation in Norfolk : — " My mother 1 when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...her own': And while that face renews myb filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for myb relief — Shall steep me in Elysian reverie', A momentary dream',...dead', Say', wast thou conscious of the tears I shed'? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son', Wretch even then', life's journey just begun'? Perhaps... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1835 - 328 pages
...were her own : And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shaH weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream...dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch, even then, life's journey just begun 1 Perhaps... | |
 | Religion - 1835 - 440 pages
...more than fifty years afterwards, on the receipt of her portrait from a relation in Norfolk :— " My mother ! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ! Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even men, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou... | |
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But gladly, as the precept were her own: And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream that thou art she. My mother! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say,... 
