 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...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...there — The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not — wins not —... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 394 pages
...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 - 384 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...of it as a spark; and they shah1 both burn together, and none shall quench them. ASPECT OF GREECE. 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 streak... | |
 | Caleb Cushing - 1833 - 326 pages
...language how true to nature ! ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death be fled, Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek ; Ami, but for that sad, shrouded eye That fires not, wins not, weeps not... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1834 - 188 pages
...all persons on a like march the perusal of the beautiful lines in the Giaour on Death, beginning, " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, &c. &c." l826, Aug. iST. Jno. Walker, Sculpt, of Lord Byron' Monument. Richard Noble, Engraver, Nottingham.... | |
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And 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 for that sad shrouded eye... 
