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 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...do so still. If they * Of the Elegy in the Churchyard. 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 be had at first written thug: " Awake »nd faithful... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...behmd ? 7 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. 8 For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 pages
...Charles l*r. 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' unhonour'd dead. Dost in these lines... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1831 - 658 pages
...under the ills of life, and a happy preparative for the rest of a glorious and a blessed immortality. " Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." * In May and June, the kind services and almost constant presence of... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...look behind ? On some fond breast tin- parting suul 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 wooted fires. — Elegg. Day. Prid. Cal. 31. Abraham Demoivre, I'itn, in Champagne,... | |
 | Willa Cather - Literary Collections - 1973 - 218 pages
...is quoting from Gray's "Elegy" on those obscure lives who even in death do not want to be forgotten: "Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, / Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." "Double Birthday" more than any other story in this group of seven... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...life, which survives, perhaps only in epitaphs and in "trembling hope," but which is assuredly there: "Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted Fires." The animals, the muttering poet, the lisping children, and the "still... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...longing ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; 90 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' unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 238 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. (85-92) The passage speaks equally to and of those who both pass away... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 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. Swift, Pope's Odyssey, Milton's Belial, Lucretius, Ovid, and Petrarch... | |
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