 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 pagine
...dust, to spread O'er dust ! a charity their dogs enjoy. What could I do'? What succour? What resource? With pious sacrilege a grave I stole : With impious piety that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty ; coward in my grief ! More like her murderer, than friend, I crept, With... | |
 | Edward Young - 1816 - 390 pagine
...? What resource ? \Vith pious sacrilege a grave I stole j \Vlth impious piety that grave I wrongM ; Short in my duty ; coward in my grief ! More like her murderer, than friend, I crept, "With soft-suspended step ; and, muffled deep In midnight darkness, •ahisper'd my last sigh. J -aihisper'd... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pagine
...dogs enjoy. What could I do? what succour? what resource ? With pious sacrilege a grave I stole, — More like her murderer than friend, I crept With soft...deep In midnight darkness whispered my last sigh. It is not, however, generally known that the French have published a print of this midnight interment,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pagine
...dogs enjoy. What could I do? what succour? what resource ? With pious sacrilege a grave I stole, — , More like her murderer than friend, I crept With soft...deep In midnight darkness whispered my last sigh. It is not, however, generally known that the French have published a print of this midnight interment,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pagine
...resource ? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I wrong'd; Short in.my duty; coward in my grief! More like her murderer, than friend, I crept, With soft-suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper'd what... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pagine
...dust, to spread O'er dust ! a charity their dogs enjoy. What could I do ? What succour? What resource ? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I wrong'd; Short in my duty; coward in my grief! More like her murderer, than friend, I crept, With soft-suspended... | |
 | William Berrian - 1821 - 410 pagine
...spread " O'er dust ! a charity their dogs enjoy. " What could I do ? what succour? what resource .' " With pious sacrilege a grave I stole; " With impious piety that grave I wrongM; ** Short in my duty, coward in my grief! " More like her murderer than friend, I crept, " With... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pagine
...succour? what resource? With pious sacrilege a grave 1 stole; With impious piety that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty, coward in my grief! More like her murderer than friend, I crept With soft-suspended step, and, muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper'd what... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 pagine
...dust to spread O'er dust ! a charity their dogs enjoy. What could I do? what succour? what resource? With pious sacrilege a grave I stole ; With impious piety that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty, coward in my grief! More like her murderer than friend, I crept With soft-suspended... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 426 pagine
...cattle go : Sheep, oxen, horses, fall ; and heap'd on high The diff'ring species in confusion lie." With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole : With impious piety that grave I wrong'd." Young. Lucretius has remarked the indecorous haste of the funerals, and the absence of the... | |
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O'er dust ! a charity their dogs enjoy. What could I do? what succour? what resource? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty ; coward in my grief! More like her murderer, than friend, I crept,... 
