 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 ページ
...judge, my bosom by your own. What mourner ever felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse, that real wo inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art,...that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave I How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing... | |
 | 1809 - 562 ページ
...once the reins of empire held." TICKEIX. " Hands that the rod of empire might have held." , GRAY. " What awe did the slow solemn knell inspire The pealing organ, and the pausing choir." TlCKELL. " The pealing anthem swells the note of praise." GRAY. Gray appears to have been a most attentive... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 560 ページ
...woe inspires : Gric'f unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ! How silent did bis old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing .statues,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 ページ
...with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night, that gave % soul's best p art f or ever ? o the How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Thro' breathing statues, then unheeded things, Thro' rows of warriors, and thro' walks of kings. What... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 562 ページ
...numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's be»t part for e\ er to the grave ! How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the man-ions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Til rough rows of warriors,... | |
 | 1810 - 492 ページ
...expression, in the above passage, was afterwards used by Tickell, in his lines on the death of Addison : " What awe did the slow solemn knell inspire, The pealing organ, and the pausing quire." And Pope certainly was indebted to Milton, for the idea of the following lines, " Where awful... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 532 ページ
...woe inspires: Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. \ Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's...kings! What awe did the slow solemn knell inspire 1 The pealing organ, and the pausing choir; The duties by the lawn-rob'd prelate pay'd ; And the last... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 628 ページ
...real wo inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave i How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 ページ
...once the reins of empire held.'-' TICK ELI, " Hands that the rod of empire might have held." GRAT. " What awe did the slow solemn knell inspire, The pealing organ, and the pausing choir !" TlCKELL. " The pealing anthem swells the note of praise." GRAY. Gray appears to have been a most... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 202 ページ
...1 How full of saduess was the morn, that gave His mortal part for ever to the grave ! IMITATION. 1 Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to ihi- gitve ! TickeU on the Otath of Miluon. With what deep awe the sable pomp roll'd slow, Through... | |
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Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave! How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through... 
