His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defied Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a 'mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen... Exercises in Reading and Recitation - Page 53by Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 251 pagesFull view - About this book
| Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse...By those his former bounty fed : On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. With downcast looks the joyless victor sate Revolving... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...good, By too severe a fate Fall'n, fall'n, fall'n, falTn, Fall'n from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood ; Deserted at his utmost need By those...downcast look the joyless victor sate Revolving in his altcr'd soul The various turns of fate below ; And now and then a sigh he stole, And tears began to... | |
| William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...infuse ; He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate, Fall'n, fall'n, fall'n, fall'n, Fall'n from his high estate, And weltering in his blood !...With not a friend to close his eyes ! With downcast eyes the joyless victor sate, Revolving in his alter'd soul. The various turns of fate below, And now... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...cheeks, his ardent eyes ; And, while he Heaven and Earth defied, Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse, Soft pity to infuse...fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood ; Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed : On the bare... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...defied, Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse Soft pity to infuse. He sang Darius, great and good, By too severe a fate, Fallen,...high estate, And '''weltering in his blood. Deserted in his utmost need By those his former bounty fed, On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend... | |
| Herbert Lockyer - Fiction - 1988 - 532 pages
...brother, but He was left to die alone. What John Dryden wrote of in "Alexander's Feast" was truer of Jesus Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty...expos'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. Forecast: "My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off' (Ps. 38:11).... | |
| Carl Dahlhaus, Ruth Katz - 454 pages
...objects: Long, pity, let the nations view Thy sky-worn robes of tenderest blue, And eyes of dewy light!20 Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty...earth expos'd he lies With not a friend to close his eyes.21 If, instead of expressing our own, we describe the feelings of others, and so enter into their... | |
| John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...cheeks, his ardent eyes;0 70 And while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse, Soft pity to infuse,...And weltering in his blood: Deserted at his utmost need,0 So By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close... | |
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