 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...  The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale - Page 4de George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 75 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 424 pages
...utterance : " Median stress ": " Low pitch " : Prevalent " monotone and semitone " : Long pauses.) " He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...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... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...Greece. Return in all thy simple state ; Confirm the tales her sons relate ! LESSON CVI. Greece. BYROB. HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first...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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pages
...thrones, should dwell The freed inheritors of hell; So soft the scene, so formed for joy, So cursed the tyrants that destroy ! He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic... | |
 | Rugby coll. of the deaf and dumb - 1845 - 180 pages
...we boasted of our one mile a minute travelling ? DEATH. Subject proposed by HB BTNGHAM. " He who has 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 lives where beauty... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...the quick ear cannot follow her flight, And the flood is unstirred as the calm blue ether. GREECE.2 HE who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled- — • Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers ; And marked the... | |
 | James Carter, Thomas Carter - 1845 - 486 pages
...other instance. It forcibly brought to my mind that beautiful simile in Lord Byrotfs '.Giaeur :' " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death has fled ; Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And mark d the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1893 - 374 pages
...It is as though the fiends prevail'd Against the seraphs they assail'd, The free inheritors of hell; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the...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... | |
 | William Alexander (Abp. of Armagh) - 1893 - 356 pages
...that there are lines in the composition which must forever keep their place in the poetry of Death : " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, Ere yet decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the uiild angelic... | |
 | 1893 - 564 pages
...Increased his fury and affright." — Byron. f' " Totum est prc corpore vulnus." — Lucan ix. 814. J " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, (Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And marked the mild angelic... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1893 - 444 pages
...Cape ? When ? How long did the foreign empire of Portugal last » What led to iu fall r GREECE. HK who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled — Before Decay's "effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers ; And marked the mild,... | |
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