 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...the quick ear cannot follow her flight, And the flood is unstirred as the calm blue ether. GREECE.2 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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 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... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1846 - 398 pages
...it inculcates a false principle, inconsistent with a just economy of life. MODERN GREECE.— BTBOH. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...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 that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! Пе who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere ¡ho ron( mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fu'd, yet tender traits that streak... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy! He who hath bent hjin o'er the dead(3) Ere the lirst day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness,...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 lender trails that... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1846 - 310 pages
...that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, Before JDecay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty...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... | |
 | 1897 - 308 pages
...-JCH A man is never too old to learn. — Middleton. Mayor of Queenborough (Simon), Act V., Sc. I. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress. — Byron. The Giaour. It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 604 pages
...akin to rhetoric. In discussing him I once quoted the exquisite passage in " The Giaour " beginning, " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled," comparing Greece to the dead man in the moment after death. Your father admitted its beauty, but said... | |
 | John Arthur Roebuck - 1897 - 466 pages
...looked on her face a few hours after her death, and then saw the truth of those lines of Byron — He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled. To my startled gaze a flush was upon her cheek ; age, and all trace of age, seemed to have vanished,... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 596 pages
...akin to rhetoric. In discussing him I once quoted the exquisite passage in "The Giaour" beginning, " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled," comparing Greece to the dead man in the moment after death. Your father admitted its beauty, but said... | |
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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... 
