| 1821 - 394 pages
...Lying Valet * Of the Elegy in the church-yard. — -B. t The verse to which he alludes is this : " Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries ; Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." The last line of which he had at first written thus : " Awake and faithful... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...from such an explanation ; for it is a tenet with me (a sim* The verse to which be alludes is this : " Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries ; " Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." The last line of which he had at first written thus : • Awake aad... | |
| 1820 - 344 pages
...humanity. It is — and who can describe it ? — why — It is LOVE ! SYESJ. INTERMENT OF THE DEAD. Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashe» live their wonted fires. — Gray. Among almost every people, however barbarous, some peculiar... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 pages
...look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul 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, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 358 pages
...look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul 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, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops t!ie closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes* live their wonted fires. •(• For thee, who, mindful of the' unhonourM dead, Dost in these... | |
| Willa Cather - 1973 - 218 pages
...is quoting from Gray's "Elegy" on those obscure lives who even in death do not want to be forgotten: "Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, / Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." "Double Birthday" more than any other story in this group of seven... | |
| Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 pages
...life, which survives, perhaps only in epitaphs and in "trembling hope," but which is assuredly there: "Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted Fires." The animals, the muttering poet, the lisping children, and the "still... | |
| Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our Ashes live their wonted Fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; 90 Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee who, mindful of th' unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
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