 For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes...  Elements of Criticism - Page 403by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 408 pages
...? No friend's complaint, no kind domeftic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn 'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourn'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1720
...unpaid? No ftiend's complaint, no kind domeftic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign...compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, Grieve... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751
...Plcas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier.' By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 5 r By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourn'd ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, 55 Grieve... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 274 pages
...Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, ox grac'd thy mournful bier: By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 5 1 By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourn'd ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, 55 Grieve... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752
...as thofe : 1 6 Favours to none, to all me fmiles extends ; Oft fhe rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the fun, her eyes the gazers ftrike, And, like the fun, they mine on all alike. VARIATIONS. VER. 4. Laur.cl'd on the bcfoni] From hence the poem continues in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754
...Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier, By foreign Tiands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 51 By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave ad*rn'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourrTd ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1756
...friend's complaint, no kind domeftic tear, * Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier ; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign...compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By Grangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourn M ! The force of the repetition of the fignificant epithet... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757
...as thofe : 10 Favours to none, to all fhe fmiles extends ; Oft fhe rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the fun, her eyes the gazers ftrike, And, like the fun, they fhinc on all alike. VARIATIONS. VER. 4. Launch* d on the lofom, etc.] From hence the poem continues... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760
...Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier. By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 51 By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By ftrangers honour' d, and by ftrangers mourn 'd ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, 55... | |
 | John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 252 pages
...? No friends complaint, no kind domeftic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or.grac'd thy mournful bier ; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign...compos'd. By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and by Grangers mourn' d ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, Grieve... | |
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