On some fond breast the parting soul 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, who mindful of th... the english anthology - Page 91by T AGERTON - 1794Full view - About this book
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul 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, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul 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 vcggio nel pen-Oer, dolce mio fnoeo, Fredda Una liii'-'ua,... | |
| Pindar - Laudatory poetry, Greek - 1810 - 376 pages
...hero forget even death itself." V. 127. The fragrance ] Gray writes in a spirit not very unlike. " Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." GR. V. 131. Fame, ev>v-licing.] As Mercury is the conductor of the... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...behind ? H 3 On some fond breast the parting soul 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, who, mindful of th' unhonpur'd dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
| English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul 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, who, mindful of the unhonor'd dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
| George Dyer - Cambridge (England) - 1814 - 320 pages
...look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul 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 with regard to our poets — I hope I shall be forgiven some... | |
| Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...anxious being e'er refign'd, Left the warm precin<2s of the cheerful day, Nor caft one longing, lingering look behind ? On fome fond breaft the parting foul relies, Some pious drops the clofing eye requires : E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our allies live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
| English literature - 1825 - 798 pages
...leaving. On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drop« the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, — Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. It is clear that we are none of us indifferent to the kindness of our... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...Lying Valet * Of the Elegy in the church-yard. — -B. t The verse to which he alludes is this : " Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries ; Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." The last line of which he had at first written thus : " Awake and faithful... | |
| English literature - 1820 - 344 pages
...humanity. It is — and who can describe it ? — why — It is LOVE ! SYESJ. INTERMENT OF THE DEAD. Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashe» live their wonted fires. — Gray. Among almost every people, however barbarous, some peculiar... | |
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