| 1839 - 612 pages
...necessary to inform my readers were, as Dr. Young has described them, part of " That sable tribe that live upon the dead, By letting out their persons by the hour To mimic sorrow when the heart's not sad," had here mingled with some of the domestics of the deceased, and at the... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...see ! the well-plum'd hearse comes nodding on, "Stately and slow; and properly attended By the whole sable tribe, that painful watch The sick man's door,...the hour, To mimic sorrow where the heart's not sad. How rich the trappings ! now they're all unfurl'd, And glittering in the sun ; triumphant entries Of... | |
| Robert Blair - 1802 - 160 pages
...see ! the well-plum'd hearse comes nodding on, Stately and slow; and properly attended By the whole sable tribe, that painful watch The sick man's door,...letting out their persons by the hour, To mimic sorrow, when the heart's not sad. How rich the trappings ! Now they're all unfurl'd And glitt'ring in the sun;... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...see.' the well plum'd hearse comes nodding on Stately and slow ; and properly attended By the whole sable tribe, that painful watch The sick man's door and live upon the dead, By letting cut their persons by the hour To mimic sorrow when the heart's not sad, How rich the trappings, now... | |
| 1806 - 184 pages
...see ! the well-plum'd hearse comes nodding on, Stately and slow ; and properly attended By the whole sable tribe, that painful watch The sick man's door,...letting out their persons by the hour To mimic sorrow, when the heart's not sad ! How rich the trappings, now they're all unfhrl'd And glittering in the sun... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...see ! the well-plum'd hearse comes nodding on, Stately and slow; and properly attended By the whole sable tribe, that painful watch The sick man's door, and live upon the dead, By letting out their persors by the hour, To mimic sorrow where the heart's not sad. How rich the trappings ! now they're... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...see! the well-plumed hearse comes nodding on, Stately and slow ; and properly attended By the whole sable tribe, that painful watch The sick man's door,...letting out their persons by the hour, To mimic sorrow when the heart's not sad. How rich the trappings ! now they're all unfurl'd, And glittering in the... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...well-plum'd hearse comes nodding Stately and slow ; and properly attended By the whole sable tribe, thai can those clumsy things, like me, Fly with a bound from tree telling out their persons by the hour To mimic sorrow when the heart's not sad ! How rich the trappings,... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...see! the well-plum'd hearse comes nodding on, Stately and slow ; and properly attended By the whole sable tribe, that painful watch The sick man's door,...the hour, To mimic sorrow where the heart's not sad. How rich the trappings! now they're all unfurl'd, And glittering in the sun ; triumphant entries Of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...see! the well-p'.um'd hearse comes nodding Stately and slow, and properly attended [on Jiy the whole sable tribe, that painful watch The sick man's door,...By letting out their persons by the hour, To mimic Borrow when the heart's not sad. How rich the trappings ! now they're all unfurl'd, And glittering... | |
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