...deeply affecting, but not without its consolation to the friends of the departed : — He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled ; * * * * Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers ; And marked the...

...wise, be just ; with will as fixed as Fate's, Advance! DF M'CARTHY,, LXVIII. — GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death...day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, * Ajalon derives its renown from the command of Joshua : " San, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou,...

...scene, so form'd for joy, So cunt the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead, En- the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The l.ut of danger and distress, I Before decay's effacing fingers Ilive swrpt the lines where beauty lingers,)...

...looked upon it, with what sensations we may imagine ! " Mr. Paice was then forty-eight. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled," has often seen something more beautiful than life itself — something than beauty dearer. But to look...

...education was excluded, as radically erroneous, and completely absurd. SYDNEY SMITH. GEEECE. HE' who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last1 of danger and distress (Before decay's effacing fingers 1 Have swept the lines1 where beauty...

...? Think of this and rise with day, Gentle lords and ladies gay ! Jfrom " ®jjt iiaonr." He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled — The first dark flay of nothingness, The last of danger and distress — Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept...

...sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. BYRON. — The Giaour, Line 87. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; — (Before Decay's effacing fingers, Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the...

...THE SUBJUGATION OF GREECE. BC 187 TO BC 146. " He who hath bent him o'er tlie dead Ere the first da; of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and dieti t.-s — » » # * Some moments, aye, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's...

...historian Polybius. . • CHAPTER XXVni. THE SUBJUGATION OF GREECE. BC 187 TO BC 146. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death...day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress — • • * • • Some moments, aye, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power...

...&c. Childe Harold. And the beautiful picture of Modern Greece, from the ' Giaour :' — ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled,' &c.* Question 11. — Here are passages taken from English poets miscellaneously, and not in the order...