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" For who to dumb 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? "
Cemetery interment - Page 116
by George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840
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The Poetical Works: Of Thomas Gray, ... with Some Account of His Life and ...

Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...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 resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ?...
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The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 74

1812 - 1020 pages
...1812, With uncouth rhymes, and shhpless sculpture cteck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd ? J.ct't the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one lunging, lingering look, behind. GHAY'S...
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The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by ...

Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...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 resiga'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling' ring look behind?...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...monuments and simple epitaphs of the swains, the amiable poet falls into a very natural reflection : For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? Of this art POPE has exhibited some specimens...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...monuments and simple epitaphs of the swains, the amiable poet falls into a very natural reflection : For who, to dumb forgetfulness a. prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...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...being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies,...
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition, Addressed to His Son

George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...bear ; " Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, " And waste its sweetness on the desart air." " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey " This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, " Iict't the warm precincts of the cheerful day, " Nor cast one longing, ling'ving look behind." The...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 1

1811 - 518 pages
...universal practice of raising .Sepulchral Monuments, and js finely illustrated by the plaintive Gray : For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd ; - Left tiie warm precincts of the cliearful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'nng louk, behind ? The most simple...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2

John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...is much finer in Gray, and very different,. the cast of this passage is not unlike his well known " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd." As when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds Ascending, &c. If chance the radiant sun with farewell...
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Rights of God, Written for the Benefit of Man: Or, the Impartiality of ...

Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 pages
...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 resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?...
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