| Alexander Pope - 1717 - 468 pages
...tear Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn 'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourn'd ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear,... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear, Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or graced thy mournful bier; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign...foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourned! What ! tho' no sacred earth allow thes room, Nor hallow'd dh-gc... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 pages
...complaint, no kind domestick tear F'ïaieJ thy pale ghoet, or graced thy mournful bier.' Er fcrtigr. hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, Bv foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By stringers honoured, and by «trangen mourned. Though... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1810 - 352 pages
...practised good actions a while, they become easy ; and when they arc easy, we beg-in to take pleasure in them ; and when they please us, we do them frequently ; and by frequency of acts, a thing grows into a habit ; and confirmed habit is a kind of second nature ; and so far as any thing... | |
| 1814 - 310 pages
...No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear, Pleased thy pale ghost, or graced thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign...limbs composed. By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'il, By strangers honor'd, and by strangers mourn'd J What though no friends in sable weeds appear,... | |
| Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...practised good actions a while, they become easy ; and when they are easy, we begin to take pleas*ure in them ; and when they please us, we do them frequently, and by frequency of action, a thing grows into a habit ; and a confirmed habit is a second kind of nature ; and so far... | |
| John Ryley, John Gawthorp, John Whitley - 1815 - 308 pages
...says the venerable Tillotson, "they become easy; and when they are easy, we begin to take pleasure in them: and when they please us, we do them frequently; and by the frequency of acts, a thing grows into a habit; and a confirmed habit is a second kind of-nature;... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 382 pages
...practised good actions awhile, they become easy; and when they are easy, we begin to take pleasure in them ; and when they please us, we do them frequently ; and byfrequency of acts, a thing grows -into a habu ; and confirmed habit is a kind of second nature ;... | |
| St. Clyde (fict.name.) - 1816 - 322 pages
...VI. No friends' complaint, no kind domestic tear, Pleased thy pale ghost, or graced thy' mounful bier .By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign...hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands 'thy Tiumble grave adorned, By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourned ! POPE. WHEN the cutter got... | |
| Filippo Pananti - 1818 - 524 pages
...tear, Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier. By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honor'd, and by strangers mourn Y ! Yet shall thy grave with rising flow'rs be... | |
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