 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pagine
...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... | |
 | Night watch - 1828 - 596 pagine
...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...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair... | |
 | William Collins, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Sir Egerton Brydges, John Langhorne - 1830 - 234 pagine
...BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1746. 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...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair,... | |
 | John Evans - 1831 - 322 pagine
...embellished with beautiful vignettes, has considerable merit, and its perusal yields no urnaH gratification. When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ! There HONOUR comes, af rilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And FREEDOM shall awhile repair... | |
 | 1832 - 510 pagine
...writing, is from Collins : two very exquisite stanzas undoubtedly :— ' How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; — And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there.' ' These stanzas,' says... | |
 | Joseph Brown Ladd, W. B. Chittenden - 1832 - 252 pagine
...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...a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And freedom shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there."* * Collins. Vv174 But we... | |
 | Sir William Hoste (1st Bart.) - 1833 - 352 pagine
...father, ever your affectionate son, W. HOSTE. BOOK V. FROM 1814 TO 1828. 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 Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair... | |
 | Sir William Hoste (1st bart), Lady Harriet Walpole Hoste - 1833 - 348 pagine
...father, ever your affectionate son, W. HOSTE. BOOK V. FROM 1814 TO 1828. 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 Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 pagine
...THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE REBELLION OF 1745. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall a while repair... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 pagine
...written on the extinction of the REBELLION in 1746, must not be omitted — How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their COUNTRY'S wishes blest! When...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ! There HONOUR comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And FREEDOM shall awhile repair... | |
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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 hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung;... 
