 Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave! How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through...  A Register of the Presidents, Fellows, Demies, Instructors in Grammar and in ... - Pagina 69di John Rouse Bloxam, Magdalen College (University of Oxford) - 1879Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pagine
...woe inspires • Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave 1 How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamp?, the mansions of the dead, Through breatliing... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1872 - 722 pagine
...beloved Abbey. His body was brought hither and deposited in a spot previously selected by himself. " Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part forever to the grave? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the... | |
 | Henry Lonsdale - 1873 - 360 pagine
...woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. " Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's...pealing organ and the pausing choir; The duties by the lawn-robed prelate paid, And the last words that dust to dust conveyed ! While speechless o'er thy... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pagine
...careful verse ! SPENSER. Those with whom I now converse Without a tear will tend my hearse. SWIFT. What awe did the slow solemn knell inspire, The pealing organ, and the passing choir, And the last words that "dust to dust" conveyM! TICKELL. If you have kindness left,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1876 - 694 pagine
...Macaulay's prose : — Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave 1 How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight...Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings ! Wliut awe did the slow solemn knell inspire, The pealing organ and the pausing choir ; The duties... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 pagine
...all, they are a glorious band, From Chaucer down to Thackeray. Robert Leiyhlou. THE TOMB OF ADDISON. CAN I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part forever to the grave? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 556 pagine
...monument is in the south transept). The funeral of Addison gave rise to the noble lines of Tickell— " Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's...Through rows of warriors and through walks of kings 1 What awe did the slow solemn knell inspire ; The pealing organ and the pausing choir ; The duties... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pagine
...careful verse ! SPENSER. Those with whom I now converse Without a tear will tend my hearse. SWIFT. What awe did the slow solemn knell inspire, The pealing organ, and the passing choir, And the last words that "dust to dust" convey'd! TlCKEI.L. If you have kindness left,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pagine
...Addison.' Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's oest part for ever to the grave ? How silently did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through oreathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings ! What... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 pagine
...all, they are a glorious band, From Chancer down to Thackeray. THE TOMB OF ADDISON. Robert Leighton. CAN I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part forever to the grave ? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of... | |
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