 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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...Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonored dead. Dost in these lines their artless tale relate;... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd The place of fame and elegy supply : [Muse, And many a holy text around she strews, That teach...nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1834 - 202 pages
...' Lcam, in like manner, in the passive? What is an adverb ? 588. Why so call ENGLISH GRAMMAR. " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." Transposed. " The parting soul relies on some fond breast ; the closing eye requires some pious... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1834 - 524 pages
...resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind 1 'On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious...Nature cries ; E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. " It is in vain that philosophy has informed us, that the whole earth is tut a point in the... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 496 pages
...nature, the affections, the understanding of the man. The poet says, ' But wbo, to dumb forgetful ness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,...Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires!' And what is it, then, that the poet means, but that (after allowing himself the figure of calling... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 pages
...to dumb forgctfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering-...nature cries ; E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." It is in vain, that philosophy has informed us, that the whole earth is but a point in the... | |
 | 1836 - 748 pages
...rustic moralist to die.' This is ungrammatical. ' Many a holy text that teaches,' it ought to be. ' On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.' ' Pious drops' is from Ovid — 'pise lacrymse ;' ' Closing eye,' is from Pope's Elegy ; '... | |
 | 1848 - 668 pages
...which death shall leave behind. The voice operating is here the voice of nature and of experience. " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." " Bury me not, I pray thee," said the patriarch Jacob, "in Egypt; but I will lie with my fathers;... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - 1839 - 482 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...nature cries ; E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. " EPITAPHS. — The invention of epitaphs proceeded from the sense of immortality impressed... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...Aux portes du néant respirant l'avenir, Nous voulons nous survivre en un doux souvenir. XXIIJ. On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious...Nature cries ; E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. Toi S' ара, тыv фвцаvшv fiffivafifvaí àfXpis ài(\aviтrшv, fié\тrovтi фапv... | |
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Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul 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... 
