 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness whisper'd my lust sigh. I whi?pcr'd what should echo thro' That laugh'u down many a summer sun, And kept you up so oft till on Presumptuous fear ! how durst I dread her foes, While nature's loudest dictates I obey'd ? Pardon necessity,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 380 pages
...charity their dogs enjoy. What could I do? what succour? what resource? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I wrong'd ;...writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies. Presumptuous fear ! how durst I dread her foes, While nature's loudest dictates I obey'd? Pardon necessity,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 324 pages
...charity their dogs enjoy. What could I do ? what succour ? what resource ? With pious sacrilege a grave I stole ; With impious piety that grave I wrong'd ;...writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies. Presumptuous fear ! how durst I dread her foeg, While Nature's loudest dictates I obey'd ? Pardon necessity,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 pages
...murderer, than friend, I crept, With soft suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper' d my last sigh. I whisper'd what should echo through...writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies. Presumptuous fear ! How durst I dread her foes, While Nature's loudest dictates I obey'd 1 Pardon necessity,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1816 - 284 pages
...Short in my duty, coward in my grief! More like her murderer than friend, I crept With soft suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd...writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies. Presumptuous fear ! how durst I dread her foes, While nature's loudest dictates I obey'd ? Pardon necessity,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1816 - 390 pages
...soft-suspended step ; and, muffled deep In midnight darkness, •ahisper'd my last sigh. J -aihisper'd what should echo through their realms : Nor writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies. Presumptuous fear ! how durst I dread her foes, "While nature's loudest dictates I obey'd ? Pardon... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...charity their dogs enjoy. What could I do ? What succour? What resource ? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I wrong'd;...writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies. Presumptuous fear ! How durst I dread her foes, While nature's loudest dictates I obey'd ? Pardon necessity,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...resource ? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I wrong'd; Short in.my duty; coward in my grief! More like her murderer,...writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies. Presumptuous fear ! How durst I dread her foes, While nature's loudest dictates I obey'd ? Pardon necessity,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 pages
...With soft-suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper' d what should echo through their realms; Nor writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies. Presumptuous fear ! How durst I dread her foes, While Nature's loudest dictates I obey'd ? Pardon necessity,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pages
...Infallibility's embrace, The sainted spirit petrified the breast: Denied the charity of dust to spread O'er dust! a charity their dogs enjoy. What could I do?...writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies. Presumptuous fear ! how durst I dread her foes, While Nature's loudest dictates I obey'd? Pardon necessity,... | |
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With soft-suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper'd what should echo through their realms ; Nor writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies. 
