 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1856 - 372 pages
...Bvpdii, Hesiod. Sc. 428. Compare also jEn. iii. 140 ; and Gray's Elegy : For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Ncr cast one longing, lingering look behind. Eeddunl. Wakefield (ad Lucr. vi. 1196) thus explains... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1877 - 806 pages
...for which we have no little affection, and we are loath to quit it. " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of this house of clay, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?" We complain of the infirmities of... | |
 | 1857 - 624 pages
...kind relative and repeated his last words, "A beautiful day ; yes, but - who, to dumb forgetfulneas a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? " { * Life of Gouvernour Morris, by Jared Sparks, vol. 1, page 2S4. t Biographical Essays by Henry... | |
 | Theodore Clapp - 1857 - 450 pages
...impressed him more deeply than the following lines of Gray's Elegy : — " For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? " On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Even from... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 pages
...holy text around she strews, That t"ach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? 23. On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even... | |
 | Theodore Clapp - 1857 - 446 pages
...impressed him more deeply than the following lines of Gray's Elegy : — " For who, to dumb Forgctfulncss n prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? " On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Sonic pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 pages
...these exquisite ones that the failure is most complete and evident — ' For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond heart the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 pages
...on one which first of all seemed to strike him for its melody alone — Who, to dnmb forgctfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, ) Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Xor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? He said this aloud once or twice over. " To dumb... | |
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For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? 
