 | Nathaniel Shatswell Dodge - 1842 - 298 pages
...and that motionless form ! " Who that hath bent him o'er the dead. Ere the first day of death hath fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last...marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The languor of that placid cheek,— And but for that sad shrouded eye That fires not,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy 1 t, Eternity forbids thee to forget." With slow and...there could trace They knew, or chose to know — wit flngers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pages
...XII. Address to Greece. — BYRON. He' . . who hath bent him o'er the dead', Ere the first day o!' death'. . is fled', The first dark day of nothingness*,...lines where beauty lingers',) And marked the mild', angelick air', The rapture of repose' . . that's there', The fixed', yet tender', traits that streak'... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...pardon for all my faults;" —then placed the children safely in the boat, and plunged into Eternity. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild, angelic air— The rapture of repose that's there— The fix'd, yet tender, traits... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...freed inheritors of hell; So soft the scene, so formed for joy, So cursed the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled. Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1899 - 392 pages
...ancestral fame. Hence his pathetic comparison of the suffering degraded country to perishing human nature. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 332 pages
...Greece might still be free." 1. 855. Yet to the remnants, etc. Cf. The Giaour for similar pathos : — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, The first Last look by death reveal'd, Such is the aspect of this... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 pages
...243-256. UP AT A VILLA— DOWN IN THE CITY GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON ^1788-1824) GREECE THE GIAOUR Нв who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers llave swept the Unes where beauty lingers), And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose... | |
 | William Clarke Robinson - 1900 - 220 pages
...beautiful lines — especially the passage comparing modern Greece to a newly lifeless corpse : — Before decay's effacing fingers. , Have swept the...marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The langour of the placid cheek. And with that... | |
 | Walter J. Clark - 1901 - 116 pages
...tete, et lui montrant du doigt L'Etre pale, etendu sans vie et sans pensee. The Giaour: He who bath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death...day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress . . . . . . Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power. So fair,... | |
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He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers... 
