Nor cast one longing lingering 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. For thee, who, mindful of th... Cemetery interment - Page 117by George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840Full view - About this book
| 1792 - 112 pages
...ling' ring , look behind ? On fome fond breaft the parting foul relies, Some pious drops the clofing 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, Doft in thefe line? their artlefs tale relate; If, chance,... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling' ring look behind? B 3 32 ELEGY On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th' unhonour'd Dead, Dost in these lines therr artless tale relate ; If chance,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul...cries, E'en in our ashes* live their wonted fires. For thce, who mindful of th* unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If chance,... | |
| Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...devouring fangs of time. In contemplating Priestley's Memoirs of Dr. Priestley, we may truly exclaim ; " E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries. E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires!" for, in this work, we perceive little more than an iteration of the pernicious doctrmes of the discontented... | |
| Francesco Petrarca - 1808 - 314 pages
...cannot see, in the notes to Gray's Elegy, as giving the hint of the following stanza in it: 246 On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...cries, E'en in our ashes live' their wonted fires. Our poet, I believe, meant to say, that the warmth, and genius of his verse, when he and his mistress... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 682 pages
...the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting sou! relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires;...cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead. Dost in the** lines their artless tale relate; If chance,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 pages
...On -»me fond breast the parting soul relies, Sun«- pious drops the closing eye requires; ITtn from . Egerton; Scatcherd and Lett For thee, who, mindful of th1 unhonour'd dead, Doit in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance,... | |
| Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...moralist to die. For who to dumb forgetfuluess a prey. This pleasing anxious being t'er resign'd, On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...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,... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgeifulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,...cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee who, mindful of the nnhonour'd dead, Dost in these lmes their artless taie relate, If chance,... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...being e'erfresign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day ; Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? . On some fond breast the parting soul...cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If chance,... | |
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