 | sir John Robert L. Emilius Laurie (3rd bart.) - 1880 - 430 pages
...it is but the passage from one condition of active being to another. As in words well known : — ' He who has bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress : And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 pages
...country to the human frame bereft of life: Picture of Modern Greece. He who hath benfrhim o'er the dcadt Ere the first day of death is fled— The first dark day of nothingness, The laet of danger and distress — Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 pages
...in the rhetorical form of what is called aposiopesis, a breaking-off, or suppression: I. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled. * Pronounced Zhoor. \v a c 612 BTRON. iv means States and other cities, is prohibited by the customs... | |
 | 1880 - 214 pages
...have quoted them elsewhere as accurately illustrative of this interesting topic : — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is lied : »**»** Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers; And mark'd... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...the first endures the last. [From The Giaour.] THE FIRST DAT OF DEATH. Hi: who hath bent him o'er the Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger anil distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the linea where beauty lingers). And marked... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 pages
...in the same manner as in the inclined plane. Compiled. QUOTATIONS FROM 1JYRON. Greece. 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 mild angelic... | |
 | English poetry - 1883 - 338 pages
...made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. MODERN 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, BYBON. (Before Decay's effacing fingers 6 Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And mark'd the... | |
 | 1883 - 528 pages
...certain to be favorably received. Edinburgh Review, May 1828. GREECE. Loun BYRON (1788-1824). 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 mild, angelic... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch - 1884 - 510 pages
...peace like the night and day!" — " The M'reck if Rk'ermoutli" \ViHTTIER. PROFUNU REPOSE. "He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, — The first dark dny of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, — (I!cfore decay's effacing fingers Have swept... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 232 pages
...of Spain. His people rose against him, and caused his death in 1520. LESSON VII. GREECE. 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 mild angelic... | |
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Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers; And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The... 
