 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pagina’s
...Health on the other, thou fallest, an unwieldy and bloated pageant, to the ground GREECE. — Byron; HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pagina’s
...50. THE BEAUTIFUL, BUT STILL AND MELANCHOLY ASPECT OF THE ONCE BUSY AND GLORIOUS SHORES OF GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...or fast, The tie which bound the first endures the last. [From The Giaour.] THE FIRST DAY OF DEATH. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pagina’s
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'.er the dead, Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The fix'd, yet tender traits that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pagina’s
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The fix'd, yet tender traits that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 384 pagina’s
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead(') Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) (1) [If once the public notice is drawn to a poet, the talents he exhibits on a nearer view, the weight... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 394 pagina’s
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead (') Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) (1) [If once the public notice is drawn to a poet, the talents he exhibits on a nearer view, the weight... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 pagina’s
...grammarian's work, would be to suppose that Newton made the stars or Werner the mountains. GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - 1832 - 572 pagina’s
...deeply affecting, but not without its consolation to the friends of the departed. He, who hath hent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled; Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept those lines where heauty lingers: And mark'd the mild, angelic... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pagina’s
...little while after death, no perceptible alteration takes place in the organization of the body : — " Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers."* And it not unfrequently happens, that no post mortem examination, not even a microscopic inspection, could... | |
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He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress... 
