 | 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... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? XXIII. On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Even from the grave the voice of nature cries ; Even in our ashes live their wonted fires.1 XXIV. For thee, who,... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...should be indifferent about its extinction ; " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts...of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering wish behind •" But as we know we must die, we should be at all times ready to meet our fate when... | |
 | 1814 - 760 pages
...corruption, dissolution, and utter dispersion, till the re-union of both iu the hour of resurreelion. " Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries; " Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." Never was the mysterious import of these thrilling lines so sweetly and solemnly expounded, exemplified,... | |
 | 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— piť lachrymae ; ' closing eye' is from Pope — ' voice of nature'... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Authors and publishers - 1821 - 420 pages
...giving him a single Cockle-Shell. in perpetuity, and embalm our mistakes in the memories of others. " Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries. Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." I shall not speak here of unwarrantable commands imposed upon survivors, by which they were to carry... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...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 relies, Some pious...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... | |
 | Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...children of the kingdom. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being ere resigned ; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful...day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?" — Gray. So sings one, who here at least speaks the language of the earth. Contrast the language of... | |
 | 998 pages
...delight and endearment, which it involves : 41 For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, Thii pleasing, anxious being, e'er resigned ; Left the warm precincts...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ?" it is attended by anxious forebodings and guilty apprehensions, which nature knows not how to repress... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, 85 This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? blance of this and the four next lines to the following of Celio Magno, is pointed out in the number... | |
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For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind? 
