 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...comparison of the same country to the human frame bereft of life :— [Picture o/ Modern Greece.'} lie nd he saw him thrown Into the deep without a tear...delicate ; But the boy bore up long, and with a mild marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there — The fixed yet tender traits that... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...Greece. Return in all thy simple state ; Confirm the tales her sons relate ! LESSON CVI. Greece. BYROB. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, • And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 424 pages
...utterance : " Median stress ": " Low pitch " : Prevalent " monotone and semitone " : Long pauses.) " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where Beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air, — The rapture of repose that 's there, — The fixed yet tender traits... | |
 | Rugby coll. of the deaf and dumb - 1845 - 180 pages
...we boasted of our one mile a minute travelling ? DEATH. Subject proposed by HB BTNGHAM. " He who has bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death...distress. Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lives where beauty lingers, Ami marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there. And... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...it inculcates a false principle, inconsistent with a just economy of life. MODERN GREECE.— BTBOH. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...mark'd the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy! He who hath bent hjin o'er the dead(3) Ere the lirst day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness,...angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The fix'd yet lender trails that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And— but liur that sad shrouded... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! Пе who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere ¡ho ron( that's there, The fu'd, yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid check, And — but... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...heavenly thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, lag lay still, So did the leaves on Cithsron's hill,...he felt not a breath come over his cheek ; What did that's there,4 The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The langour of the placid cheek, And — but... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...inculcates a false principle, inconsistent with a just economy of life. N* MODERN GREECE.— BYROIT. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...mark'd the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but... | |
 | David Nevins Lord - Bible - 1847 - 560 pages
...Their only common characteristic is a change, but that, as the change of the one is wholly unlike 1 He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...mark'd the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak, The languor of the pallid cheek, And, — but... | |
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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, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers... 
