 | 1813 - 574 pages
...this poet so delights to indulge. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of'-death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last,...danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers • Have swept the lines where beauty lingers) And marked the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose... | |
 | 1812 - 576 pages
...any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark...danger and distress ; ( Before Decay's effacing fingers I lave swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air—- The rapture of repose... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 1102 pages
...grotesque declamation and gestures of the Turkish story-teller. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark...danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air— The rapture of repose... | |
 | 1813 - 662 pages
...the prey, And turn to groans his roundelay.! i>. 3. V<», X. Tt ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark...danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, ) And mark'd the mild.angelic air — The rapture of repose... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pages
...any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere, the first day of death is fled;" The first dark...danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers;) And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 580 pages
...the extended simile in which this poet so delights to indulge. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark...danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers) And marked the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose... | |
 | 1813 - 560 pages
...quoting the following highly wrought and characteristic specimen. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark...of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fmgers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1813 - 90 pages
...scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants, that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, 10 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | 1813 - 552 pages
...now recollect in the whole compass of poetry. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first dav of death is fled: The first dark day of nothingness, The last of dangeY and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept tlie lines where beauty lingers;)... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry* • He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark...danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose... | |
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He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress... 
