 | Noah Webster - 1822 - 246 Seiten
...are distinguished by a happy choice of words. " For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned ? Left the warm precincts...day, Nor east one longing, lingering look behind?" The words longing and lingering express most forcibly the reluctance with which mankind quit this state... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 882 Seiten
...Calton. " For who, to dumb forgetfulnesa a prey, This pleasing, anxious being, e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor east one longing, lingering look behind?" A monument on that airy elevated cemetery, which, on account of a magnificent terrace now carried round... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 272 Seiten
...T. Moore. What is the following stanza called ? For who to dumb forgetfuluess a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor east oue louging, lingering look behind? — Gray. Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 532 Seiten
...moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor east one longing lingering look behind ! On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 200 Seiten
...strews, To teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned — Left the warm precincts...cheerful day, Nor east one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires : E'en from... | |
 | 1884 - 794 Seiten
...supply; And niiiny a holy text around she strews, For who, to dumb forgctfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor east oue longing, lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting BOU! relies, Some pious drops the... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1895 - 450 Seiten
...their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts...cheerful day, Nor east one longing, lingering look behind ? 23. On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even... | |
 | 1858 - 454 Seiten
...anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor casl¿onelonging,lingering look behind." God have mercy on those who, at such...bitterness. Those who do thus, greatly need mercy, for they hare victims of this terrible vice, while, much to be forgiven. Such, however, often, their nearest... | |
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For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned — Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor east one longing, lingering look behind... 