For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes... Elements of Criticism - Page 403de Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 456 pages
...? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier: By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd , By foreign...compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd. \Vhat though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve... | |
| John Aikin - 1806 - 346 pages
...artifice of writing, the repetition of words particularly energetic, in the following lines : 'Byfureign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 'By foreign hands...compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd. Examples of that sententious brevity which peculiarly... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier. By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 51 By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By ftangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mcurn'd ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, 55 Grieve... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier, By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 5 j By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By dangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourn'd ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, 55 Grieve... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1807 - 588 pages
...and the paufes in particular ought all of them to have the fame place. Take the following examples : By foreign hands || thy dying eyes were clos'd, By...eyes the gazers ftrike ; And, like the fun, || they thine on all alike. Speaking of Nature, or the God of Nature : Warms in the fun || refrefhes in the... | |
| John Aikin - 1807 - 320 pages
...that artifice of writing, the repetition of words particularly energetic, in the following lines : 'By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, . By...compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd. Examples of that sententious brevitj which peculiarly... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful hier. By foreign luuuU thy dying eyes were clos'd, 15 By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd ! YVhat though no friends in sable weeds appear, Si... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear, i'kus'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd {by mournful bier. By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composM, By foreign hands thy bumble grave adora'd, By strangers honour 'd, and by strangers mourn'd... | |
| Young gentleman - 1807 - 314 pages
...No fiiend's complaint, no kind domeftic tear, Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournfol hier: By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limhs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humhle grave adorn'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and hy (Irangers... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Tleas'd thy pale ghost.or grac'd thy mournful bier: By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign...decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble gravo adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd I What though no friends in sable weeds... | |
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