...quoted, and so highly praised, that it is now merely necessary to draw the reader's attention to it: 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...

...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 of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before Decay's effacing fingers...

...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 of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, ( Before decay's effacing fingers...

...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...

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...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 day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress ; Before Decay's effacing fingers...

...; 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...

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