| Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 pages
...Thus runs the world away. Hamlet — Act 3, Sc. 2. SHAKSPBARB. Moon. 31. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest ! When...sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By faiiy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 pages
...their country's wishes blest ? When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
| Edward Everett - 1850 - 708 pages
...to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf...a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there." Still less let us forget, on this auspicious anniversary, the venerable survivors of the eventful contest.... | |
| John Hill Wheeler - 1851 - 644 pages
...be proud of her Caswell. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest . With all their country's honors blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns...the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, And dwell a weeping hermit there." During the administration of Governor Caswell, the... | |
| John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - 892 pages
...the sentiment of Horace, ' Dulce et decorum est pro patrid mori — " How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ; When...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes a Pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...Written in tht Year 1746. How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest Î from the sun direct the flaming day ; Feeds every...of life. Nature, attend! join, every living soul Be Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
| Ambrose Maclandreth (fict.name.) - 1851 - 180 pages
...all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their Imllow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
| John Hill Wheeler - 1851 - 876 pages
...justly be proud of her Caswell. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's honors blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns...dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. * t *• By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forras unseen their dirge is song ; . There Honor comes,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...come, they come .* 18. ODE. — William Collins. Born, 1720 ; died, 1758. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...while repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there. 19. VIRGINIU8, AS TRIBUNE, REFUSES THE APPEAL OF APPIUS CLATDITS. — Original Paraphraie from Licy. I... | |
| James Spear Loring - 1852 - 720 pages
...cheeks, and his voice, every now and then, choked with emotion : ' How sleep the brave, who sink to net, By all their country's wishes blest ! When spring,...a while repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there. ' " And there was another ode, by the same author, which, he said, he was also obliged to repeat, as... | |
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