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| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 386 pages
...angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, • The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded...chill, changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy (') Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And—but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not,...chill, changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon;... | |
| Harp - English poetry - 1836 - 380 pages
...rapture of repose that's there : — The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the pallid cheek, And but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires...— now, And but for that chill, changeless brow, Whose touch thrills with mortality, And curdles to the gazer's heart, As if to him it would impart... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fir'd yet tender traits that strrak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded...chill changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy (2) Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wius not, werps uot, now, And but for that chill changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy (2)... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded...chill changeless brow, Where cold obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon... | |
| William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And but for that sad shrouded...chill changeless brow, Where cold obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it would impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...The rapture of repose' . . that's there', The fixed', yet tender', traits that streak' The languor of the placid cheek', And' — but for that sad',...changeless brow', Where cold obstruction's apathy' Appals the gazing mourner's heart', As if to him' . . it could impart' The doom he dreads', yet dwells... | |
| Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 pages
...angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded...chill changeless brow, Where cold obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon... | |
| Manchester grammar sch - 1840 - 210 pages
...Byron, referring to the state of modern Greece, where he so beautifully compares it to a corpse : — " And but for that sad, shrouded eye, That fires not,...chill, changeless brow, Where cold obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads yet dwells upon... | |
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