 | Henry Hutchinson (of Derby.) - 1884 - 308 pages
...introduced by till, until, ere, and before, ' the indicative is sometimes used ' — " ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled.' — Byron. " ' Call me not fool till Heaven hath sent me fortune.' Shakespeare." It is evident the... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1885 - 602 pages
...TIIE SCBJCGATION OF GREECE. BC 187 TO BC U6. •' He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the firet day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress— • * * * • Some moments, aye, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power; Such... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 pages
...assailed, .nd, fixed on heavenly thrones, should ANCIENT AND MODERN GREECE. [ The Giaour.] HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is lied. The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1887 - 476 pages
...the melody, is borne, Rapt, and dissolved in ecstacy, to heaven. XCVII.— GREECE. BYBON. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death...day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, FAME. 43D (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And inark'd... | |
 | Heliodorus (of Emesa.) - 1889 - 576 pages
...fury and affright." — Byron. t " Totum est pro corpore vulnus." — Lucan ix. 814. J " 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... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 174 pages
...brother Sleep ! ' &c. The mind may also revert to the noble passage in Byron's Giaour — ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled,' &c. — though the idea of actual sleep is not raised in this admirably beautiful and admirably realistic... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 192 pages
...and his brother Sleep ! ' &c. The mind may also revert to the noble passage in Byron's ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled,1 &c. — though the idea of actual sleep is not raised in this admirably beautiful and admirably... | |
 | 1893 - 564 pages
...fury and affright." — Byron. f' " Totum est prc corpore vulnus." — Lucan ix. 814. J " 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... | |
 | William Alexander (Abp. of Armagh) - 1893 - 358 pages
...lines in the composition which must forever keep their place in the poetry of Death : " He who bath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, Ere yet decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1893 - 444 pages
...When ? How long did the foreign empire of Portugal last » What led to iu fall r GREECE. HK 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,... | |
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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... 
