 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 страници
...as a child sleeps, and so passed away. His last appearance was like that described by the poet — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild, angelic... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 222 страници
...inheritors of hell — 65 So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! i He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, 70 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | 1815 - 422 страници
...succeeded she withdrew with customary tokens of good- will. CHAP. VII. He who hath bent him o'er the (lend, Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark...day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, And marked the mild angelic air, The rvpture of repose, that's there,. The fixed yet tender tracks,... | |
 | William Macgregor Stirling - 1815 - 230 страници
...subsided, one of the loftiest poets of this, or of any other age or country, alludes, when he says, — " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled .... .... Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - 228 страници
...hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, 70 The last of 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 that's there, 75 The fixed yet tender traits that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 226 страници
...inheritors of hell ; 65 So soft ,the scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, JO The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 страници
...— The beautiful, but still and melancholy Aspect, of the once busy and glorious Shores of Greece. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...(Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines vrbere oeauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there —... | |
 | 664 страници
...the best interests of a true Christian. What can we think of the man who tells us of death as being The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress. Giaour. Again, in his'song to Inez, in Childe Harold, he speaks of the mark The fabled Hebrew wanderer... | |
 | 1820 - 442 страници
...without Meaning. . 16. The Finis, by Hogarth — Its Companion. The Shore of Athens. BY LORD BYRON. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...swept the lines where beauty lingers, > And mark'd the mind, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there — The fix'd, yet tender tracts that streak... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 страници
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! * He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...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 that streak... | |
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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... 
