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, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers... The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale - Pàgina 4per George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 75 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1821 - 712 pàgines
...by the waiul of an enchanter, rather than reared by human hands. Myst. of Udol. v. Í. p. 34. Byron. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, ite. See the rest of this beautiful passage, »s far as Such is the aspect of this shore, Tis Greece,... | |
| 1813 - 574 pàgines
...beauty, but which is an instance of the extended simile in which this poet so delights to indulge. " 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 ; (Before Decay's... | |
| 1812 - 576 pàgines
...and more exquisitely finished, than any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; ( Before Decay's effacing fingers I lave swept the lines where beauty... | |
| 1813 - 550 pàgines
...and more exquisitely finished, than any that we can now recollect in the whole compass of poetry. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere, the first...death is fled;" The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
| 1813 - 716 pàgines
...consul at Athens. — FORT FOLIO. Receives him by the lovely light That bent becomes an eastern night. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where Beauty... | |
| 1813 - 560 pàgines
...delight; and we cannot refrain from quoting the following highly wrought and characteristic specimen. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fmgers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
| 1813 - 1102 pàgines
...on an eastern audience, and of the grotesque declamation and gestures of the Turkish story-teller. ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
| 1813 - 662 pàgines
...shore, Rush the night-prowlers on the prey, And turn to groans his roundelay.! i>. 3. V<», X. Tt ' He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
| 1813 - 580 pàgines
...beauty, but which is an instance of the extended simile in which this poet so delights to indulge. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pàgines
...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... | |
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