| 1848 - 668 pages
...experience. " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some 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." " Bury me not, I pray thee," said the patriarch Jacob, "in Egypt; but I will lie with my fathers; and... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pages
...another, and a higher state of being, and may thus be recipients at the same time of men and of angels. " E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." As we grow old, our sense of the value of time becomes vivid. Nothing else indeed seems of any consequence.... | |
| 1836 - 748 pages
...ought to be. ' On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some 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.' ' Pious drops' is from Ovid — 'pise lacrymse ;' ' Closing eye,' is from Pope's Elegy ; ' Voice of... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...another, and a higher state of being, and may thus be recipients at the same time of men and of angels. " E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." As we grow old, our sense of the value of time becomes vivid. Nothing else indeed seems of any consequence.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - 486 pages
...another, and a higher state of being, and may thus be recipients at the same time of men and of angels. " E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." As we grow old, our sense of the value of time becomes vivid. Nothing else indeed seems of any consequence.... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...souvenir. XXIIJ. On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some 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. Toi S' ара, тыv фвцаvшv fiffivafifvaí àfXpis ài(\aviтrшv, fié\тrovтi фапv irùi/... | |
| Thomas Faulkner - 1839 - 486 pages
...look behind. On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some 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. " EPITAPHS. — The invention of epitaphs proceeded from the sense of immortality impressed in all... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 pages
...XXIII. XXIII. On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some 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. XXIII. XXIV. Toi 8' арa, тa>V tpdififva>v /if /ira/«'i/« /i/i(/>ir fif\irovTi фaтм tтvv afiKf'i... | |
| George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 pages
...behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some 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." It is in vain that philosophy has informed us, that the whole earth is but a point in the eyes of its... | |
| Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1840 - 204 pages
...eU t 33d " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some 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." Transposed. " The parting soul relies on some fond breast ; the closing eve requires some pious drops... | |
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