 | 1826 - 310 ページ
...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 550 ページ
...of the grave, yet reason does not restrain us from extending our cares to the unconscious dust : " E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." The income arising from the settled price of interments in Pere La Chaise has been amply sufficient... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 544 ページ
...of the grave, yet reason does not restrain us from extending our cares to the unconscious dust : " E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." The income arising from the settled price of interments in Pere La Chaise has been amply sufficient... | |
 | Jacob Brettell - 1827 - 220 ページ
...loud ban of their censure should disturb his catm repose and call forth bis spirit from the grave: E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires! Those who fear no apparitions may smile at this allusion, and, in truth, the author smiles at it himself:... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 ページ
...resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 ページ
...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies; Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries; Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 ページ
...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious...mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire... | |
 | Ray B. Browne - 1992 - 218 ページ
...its own piece. To nineteenth-century English poet Thomas Gray nature appealed even from the grave: "E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." To the American artist James McNeill Whistler, nature reserved her voice for the artist: "Nature sings... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 ページ
...("Thee," "swain," and "kindred spirit") as a means of shuttling between its imaginary temporal moments: For thee, who mindful of th' unhonour'd Dead Dost in these lines their artless tale relate If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred Spirit shall inquire... | |
 | 1901 - 1102 ページ
...force of parental affection, and to give legisUtive effect to the truth expressed in the lines : — " E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." The Lord Chancellor also has been known to fall back upon quotation. Indeed he interrupted the solemn... | |
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The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er... 
