 | 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...comparison of the same country to the human frame bereft of life :— [Picture o/ Modern Greece.'} lie nd he saw him thrown Into the deep without a tear...delicate ; But the boy bore up long, and with a mild languor of the placid cheek — > And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not — win« iiot... | |
 | Constancy - 1844 - 936 pages
...of the first day of death, and she almost unconsciously repeated in a half audihle voice the lines : He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there. And — but for that cold, changeless brow, Where cold obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing; mourner's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 186 pages
...freed inheritors of hell — So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! 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 fixed yet tender traits that streak... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...fust dark day of nothingness, The l;it of danger and distress — Before decay's effacing fingers Hare res of character and situation. Other models were...French novelist 1л Sage, whose ' Gil Bias,' and ' De languor of the placid check—- And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not — wins not... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...Greece. Return in all thy simple state ; Confirm the tales her sons relate ! LESSON CVI. Greece. BYROB. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad, shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 424 pages
...utterance : " Median stress ": " Low pitch " : Prevalent " monotone and semitone " : Long pauses.) " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...marked the mild angelic air, — The rapture of repose that 's there, — The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And, —... | |
 | Rugby coll. of the deaf and dumb - 1845 - 180 pages
...we boasted of our one mile a minute travelling ? DEATH. Subject proposed by HB BTNGHAM. " He who has bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death...distress. Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lives where beauty lingers, Ami marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there. And... | |
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And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye... 
