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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... "
The British Review, and London Critical Journal - Page 137
1813
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The Works of Lord Byron: Complete in One Volume

George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...form'd for joy. So curst the tyrants that destroy! lie who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the tii>l 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 tender traits that...
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The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the ...

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...relaxes into 10 Pity,'with the addition of much " Solemnity as the description draws to a conclusion. 1 He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...of nothingness, The last of danger and distress,) 2 Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Comprising the Suppressed Poems, Volumes 4-5

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1826 - 466 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 day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothinguess, The last of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...
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The guards, Volume 3

Guards - 1827 - 308 pages
...could get his Northern friend to visit him afterwards. CHAPTER III. LADY LYDIA S DEATH. WHO MARIA WAS. "He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before decay's offensive fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The...
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Narrative of an excursion from Corfu to Smyrna. To which is annexed, a tr ...

Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1827 - 314 pages
...attested by the following passage :— He who has bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ;— Ere yet decay's effacing fingers Have swept the line where beauty lingers,— And mark'd the mild...
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Narrative of an Excursion from Corfu to Smyrna: Comprising a Progress ...

Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1827 - 304 pages
...attested by the following passage : — He who has bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death has fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; — Ere yet decay's effacing fingers Have swept the line where beauty lingers, — And mark'd the...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lord Byron

George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...quoted, and so highly praised, that it is now merely necessary to draw the reader's attention to it: He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The langour of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitations: Founded on the Enquiry in the ...

John Barber - 1828 - 310 pages
...tongue In every wound of Caesar, that should move The stones of Rome to rise in mutiny. GREECE. BYRON He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...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 that...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...creeping things shall revel in their spoil, And fit thy clay to fertilize the soil. GREECE. BYRON. 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 that streak...
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An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution

Samuel Gridley Howe - 1828 - 510 pages
...death has fled ; E'er decay.s effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. And mark.d the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's...placid cheek, And, but for that sad shrouded eye, That weeps not, wins not, fires not, now, And but for that chill changeless brow — ****** Yes, but for...
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