...here I fix my lasting choice, For here true bliss I find ! Doddridge. GREECE. • • • • :*.• He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed, yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And, — but...

...creeping things shall revel in their spoil, And fit thy clay to fertilize the soil. GREECE. BYRON. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak...

...tongue In every wound of Caesar, that should move The stones of Rome to rise in mutiny. GREECE. BYRON He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd, yet tender traits that...

...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so formed for joy, So curst the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger rim! distress, Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers; And marked...

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...of intense interest expressed in a more beautiful manner than that in which he speaks of Greece : " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death has fled ; Ere decay's effacing fingers Hare swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild...

...die tyrants tbat destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the firm day of death U fled, TUe first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before decay'« г f far mg fingers Нате swept the lines where heauty lingers). And mark'd the mild angelic...

...are, for the purpose of impressing moral truth upon the memory, as well as the understanding. Bmttie. He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. Byron. He travelled sorely, and made many a tack, His sails oft shifting, to arrive, dread thought...

...; While sea-horn gales their gelid wings expand To wiunow fragrance round the smiling land. GREECE. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled, Tlu- first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before decay's effacing fingers...

...western wave. CHAPTER XI. THE RECLUSE'S LAST SORROWS AND TRIALS — THK DISSOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS HOUSES. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of Death is Bed, — Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. And mark'd the...