 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...sigh. Their name, their yefers, spelled by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,— Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,— Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 292 pages
...a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse. The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy text around she strews, That teach...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, — Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 6 For who, to dumb forsretfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? 7 On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 pages
...a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign' d, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...sigh. Their name, their years, spelled by the unlettered muse The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, — Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, — Nor cast one longing, lingering look... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1829 - 216 pages
...Horrible discord ; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury, rag'd. Sound imitating Reluctance. For^who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious...day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind? SECTION VI. PARAGRAPHS OF GREATER LENGTH. Connubial Affection. THE love that cheers life's latest stage,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...thy doom. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? 4*** On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; •... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing liug'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - 416 pages
...and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 6 For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? 7 On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1831 - 658 pages
...deference due to decency, to public opinion, that he should leave the world thus. It was unmanly — " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing,...day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind?" If I could not leave the world in the elevation of Christian hope, let me, at least, leave it in the... | |
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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... 
