| William Hayley - 1803 - 206 pages
...with tender indignation, cried, " How could these little forms, of life so brief, Deserve this dire abode of lasting grief?" " —Well may thy gentle...sore concern'd At sight so moving," the mild Sprite rcturn'd : " Thou seest in those, whose wailings wound thy ears, The puny progeny of modern peers :... | |
| William Hayley - 1812 - 188 pages
...indignation, cried, " How could these little forms, of life so brief, Deserve this dire abode of tasting grief ?" " --Well may thy gentle heart be sore concern'd...thy ears, The puny progeny of modern peers : Their sires,'by avarice, or ambition led, Aliens to love, approach'd the nuptial bed With proud indifference,... | |
| William Hayley - 1817 - 194 pages
...with tender indignation, cried, ' How could these little forms, of life so brief', Deserve this dire abode of lasting grief ?' '—Well may thy gentle...moving,' the mild Sprite return'd : 'Thou seest in those,whose wailings wound thine ears, The puny progeny of modern peers : Their sires, by avarice,... | |
| 1826 - 300 pages
...with tender indignation, cried, • How could these little forms, of life so brief, Deserve this dire abode of lasting grief ?' ' — Well may thy gentle...mild sprite return'd ; ' Thou seest in those, whose waitings wound thy The puny progeny of modern peers: [ears, * Per me si va nella citta dolente, Per... | |
| Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - 784 pages
...with tender indignation, cried, ' How could these little forms, of life so brief, Deserve this dire abode of lasting grief? ' — 'Well may thy gentle...concern'd At sight so moving,' the mild Sprite return'd : k Thou seest in those, whose wailings wound thy ears, The puny progeny of modern peers. ..." (Canto... | |
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