 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 pages
...to' decorate a grave — not a new one — overgrown with grass. I thought of Gray's Elegy : — " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." The church is a good specimen of early fourteenth century architecture, and with the exception of the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Death - 1845 - 92 pages
...Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? XXIII. On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious...cries ; E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. . . VV- •I ..: K V. . .^1•w I..1 .V/. i•, I XXIV. For thce, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead,... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 522 pages
...Business. MR IS THERE NO MEMORY IN THE GRAVE ? BY MRS. EDWARD THOMAS. On some fond breast the panting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires...cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. Gray. THE sorrow'd deail in the sepulchre sleep ! Oh ! are they, then, unconscious of the tears Grieving... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...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...live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonored dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, hy lonely contemplation... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...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,...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...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...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. 9 For thee,... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - English language - 1849 - 218 pages
...passive? What is an adverb? 588. Why so The verb to be ia the same manner ? calluil ? 238. On sonic fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops...cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." Transposed. " The parting soul relies on some fond breast ; the closing eye requires some pious drops... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 532 pages
...prey This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor east one longing lingering look behind ! On some fond breast...cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." 'notions in any other place ; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 374 pages
...resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? 23. On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious...cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. 24. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonored dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If... | |
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Muse, The place of 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 resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... 
