 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 514 pages
...This pleafing anxious being e'er refign'd, " Left the warm precindts of the chearful day, " Nor caft one longing, lingering look behind ?" A monument on...the hill, is greatly frequented, will be extremely confpicuous, and muft often call his name to remembrance. It has been remarked, that the fame day on... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 434 pages
...warm precintts oj the cheerjul day, " Nor cajl one longing, lingering look behind? A monument on the airy elevated cemetery, which, on account of a magnificent...the hill, is greatly frequented, will be extremely confpicuous, and muft often call his name to remembrance. It has been remarked, that the fame day on... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 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...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 relies, Some... | |
 | 1800 - 322 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...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 relies, Some... | |
 | 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 ?... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pages
...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...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? XXI. The poet seems here to have finished the reflections... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 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...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 relies, Some... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumh forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious heing e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look hehind ' On some fond hreast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the clo&ing eye require! ; For... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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 resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... 
