 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...scene from every future § 150. Ode. Written in the year 1746. COLLIKS. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When...is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray. To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall a while repair,... | |
 | John James M'Gregor - 1816 - 494 pàgines
...history shall transmit to future ages the record of their deathless fame. How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is cung. Here honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And freedom shall... | |
 | 1817 - 732 pàgines
...brave men who have sacrificed their lives in the Cause of Britain. " How sleep the Brave, who sink to rest, By all their Country's wishes blest ! When...sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod, By fairy bands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey,... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pàgines
...their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; Their HONOUR comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And FREEDOM shall awhile... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 pàgines
...latter, to excite sentiments of compassion in favour of those whn became a samfice to public justice. She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. TO MERCT. O THOU, who sit'st a smiling bride By Valour's arm'd and awful side, Gentlest of sky-born... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 pàgines
...I, O Fear, will dwell with thee .' 15 ODE. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1746. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; Their Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | Elizabeth Chase - 1821 - 248 pàgines
...sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ; When Spring, with dewy fmgers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there...their dirge is sung ; There honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pàgines
...WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1746 l . How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes bless'd! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. 1 This, and the succeeding ode, seem to have been... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pàgines
...such scenes from every future view , ODE, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDOCXLVI. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rang, By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1825 - 482 pàgines
...hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy-hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is...repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." Collins. 1746. Tlie unfortunate author of these inimitable lines, a little while before his death, — in a... | |
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How sleep the Brave, who sink to rest By all their Country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is... 
