 | Sophocles - 1833 - 480 pages
...no man happy, ere he shall have crossed the limitary line of life, the sufferer of nought painful. m "The first dark day of nothingness. The last of danger and distress," says lord Byron, and so said (in part at least) Solon before him. But Aristotle, who was not a man... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1834 - 188 pages
...like march the perusal of the beautiful lines in the Giaour on Death, beginning, " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled,...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, &c. &c." l826, Aug. iST. Jno. Walker, Sculpt, of Lord Byron' Monument. Richard Noble, Engraver, Nottingham.... | |
 | John McCosh - 1835 - 100 pages
...Byron then appear ! — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death has fled, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there,— 30 The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek ; And but for that sad,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...weeping, blessed the God who gave Strength to forsake it not! CXII. GREECE.—Byron. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled,...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 not,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 386 pages
...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 day of death is...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) (1) [If once the public notice is drawn to a poet, the talents he exhibit! on a nearer view, the weight... | |
 | Harp - 1836 - 380 pages
...— But the noblest thing that perished there Was that young faithful heart ! DEATH. 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 line where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...tempest, arm'd with wrath, CommisBion'd to affright us, and destroy. MODERN GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled,...distress, (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the line where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 260 pages
...of hell; So soft the scene, so formed for joy , So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled...last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing lmgers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers ,) And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of... | |
 | 1836 - 388 pages
...he seemed fixed to the spot — to describe his feelings is impossible. Reader, have you ever bent " o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled...nothingness, The last of danger and distress — Before delay's effacing fingers Hath swept the lines where beauty lingers, And mark'd the mild, angelic air,... | |
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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... 
