| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...and affection. Precincts of the cheerfiil day. — The word precinct means boundary. 26 XXII. " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...cries, Even in Our ashes live their wonted fires, Parting soul relies; — that is, depends upon some person who was fond of them for the last marks... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...to dumb Forgctfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious bcinsj e'er re>ign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our a»hcs live their wonted tires '. 3 Ch'i... | |
| George Dyer - Cambridge (England) - 1814 - 320 pages
...to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look...relies. Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev"n from the tomb the voice of nature cries ; Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." — And... | |
| English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
| England - 1849 - 802 pages
...— how comely in critical old age ! Any farther fanlt to find with our friend Mitford ? NORTH. " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...cries , Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." •' ' Pious drops' is from Ovid— pi» lachrymae ; ' closing eye' is from Pope — ' voice of nature'... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...to dumb forgeifulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look...relies. Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Kv'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. I'orthec,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering...relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
| English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...anxious being e'er 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...cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. ADDRESS TO LORD BYRON. KNOW'ST thou the land of the mountain and flood, Where the pine of the forest... | |
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