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" And thou, who mindful of the unhonour'd Dead Dost in these Notes their artless Tale relate By Night & lonely Contemplation led To linger in the gloomy Walks of Fate Hark how the sacred Calm, that broods around Bids ev'ry fierce tumultuous Passion cease... "
The Cambridge History of English Literature: The age of Johnson - Page 126
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...Hark ' how the sacred calm, tbat breathes around, Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease. In atill small accents whisp'ring from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. * Cn'i veggie nel pensier, dolce mio fuoco, Fredda una lingua, et due begli occhi thiusi Rimiuiei droppo...
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The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his ...

Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...Ver. 82. Ekgy] Epitaph, Ms. M. NOTES. " Hark ! how the sacred calm, that breathes around, Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. " No more, with reason and thyself at strife, Give anxious cares and endless wishes room ; But through...
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...contemplation led To linger in the lonely walks of Fate, Hark how the sacred calm that reigna around Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents...from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace. No more with Reason and thyself at strife, Give anxious cares and endless wishes room ; But through...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids ev'ry fierce tumultuous passion cease,...from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap,...
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The Odd Fellows' Magazine, Volume 6

1841 - 478 pages
...P. JENNINGS. No. X,— THOMAS GRAY. 14 Hark ! bow the sacred calm, that breathes around, Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents...the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace." Originally in the Elegy. THIS excellent poet and accomplished scholar was born in London, on the 26th...
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Remarks on English churches, and on the expediency of rendering sepulchral ...

James Heywood Markland - 1842 - 186 pages
...have been expunged from his Elegy : — " Hark ! how the sacred calm, that breathes around, Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents...from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace." Tombs of different periods, and of styles characteristic of those periods (provided they do not offend...
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Memoirs of a Working Man

James Carter, Thomas Carter - 1845 - 486 pages
...that beautiful stanza in Gray's unequalled ' Elegy :'— " Hark! how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids ev'ry fierce tumultuous passion cease...In still, small accents, whisp'ring from the ground The grateful earnest of eternal peace." While musing on these beautifully expressive and touching lines*...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids ev'ry fierce tumultuous passion cease,...from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap,...
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The Journey of Life

Catherine Sinclair - 1847 - 400 pages
...tossed with tempest and not comforted," religion still benignly points our best and latest hope — In still small accents whisp'ring from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace. In the general love of mankind during all ages for tragical representations, we see one evidence, among...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 pages
...wander in the gloomy walks of fate : " Hark ! how the sacred calm, that breathes around. Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. " No more, with reason and thyself at strife, Give anxious cares and endless wishes room ; But through...
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