 Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary...  The Oral Study of Literature - Page 290by Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again; Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone ; nor...hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulcher. 4. The hills, Eock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone ; nor...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre ! The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...combined with Tranquillity. [FROM THE THANATOPSIS.] — Bryant. " Yet not to thy eternal resting place , Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch...and hoary seers of ages past, — All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching in pensive... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1848 - 300 pages
...Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again ; Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone; nor...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales, Streching in pensive quid ness... | |
 | Bible stories, English - 1848 - 272 pages
...upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mouth ; Yet not to thy earthly resting place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch...and hoary seers of ages past — All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun — the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 472 pages
...swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...combined with Tranquillity. [FROM THE THANATOPSIS.] — Bryant. " Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch...and hoary seers of ages past, — All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching in pensive... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...combined with Tranquillity. [FROM THE THANATOPSIS.] — Bryant. " Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch...and hoary seers of ages past, — All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, — the vales, Stretching in pensive... | |
 | Cyrus Augustus Bartol - Unitarianism - 1850 - 358 pages
...finally kept off. " Yet a few days, and thce The all-beholding sun shall sec no more In all his course. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant-...and hoary seers of ages past, — All in one mighty sepulchre. The sons of men, The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1851 - 380 pages
...swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
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