 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...N* MODERN GREECE.— BYROIT. 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 — And mark'd the mild,... | |
 | David Nevins Lord - Bible - 1847 - 560 pages
...the one is wholly unlike 1 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, And mark'd the mild, angelic... | |
 | Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...mingling with the sky." 4. — Profound Repose. [ASPECT OF DEATH: FROM BYRON'S DESCRIPTION OP GREECE.] The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, — (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where Beauty lingers,) And marked the mild... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...the tyrants that destroy ! 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,) And mark'd the mild angelic... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...Death a Victory. MODERN 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 Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1848 - 322 pages
...as if speaking to himself, " God has heard that man's prayer. He has comforted him." CHAPTER XIX. " The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress." BYRON. ALTHOUGH Mary had hardly been conscious of her thoughts, and it had been more like a secret... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...CXXXVIII. MODERN GREECE. BYEOH. 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-, And marked the mild... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...curst the tyrants that destroy ! 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 linger*?), And mark'd the mild angelic... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1848 - 320 pages
...curst the tyrants that destroy ! 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,') And mark'd the mild angelic... | |
 | Sophocles - 1849 - 376 pages
...more naturally joined with .'rno-\;:;Twv. Should we read — iroXirviv T&f rvxaf tsrt/3Xtirwv ? B. 1 " The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger...brings the second into considerable doubt. Eth. 1. IEDIPUS COLONEUS. CEniPus, banished from Thebes, comes to Athens under the guidance of his daughter... | |
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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... 
