 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
 | William Alexander (Abp. of Armagh) - 1893 - 358 pages
...lines in the composition which must forever keep their place in the poetry of Death : " He who bath 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 mild angelic... | |
 | John Reynolds Francis - 1894 - 412 pages
...men died, and others did not, death might be considered.an enemy; but being universal, it cannot be. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last day of danger and distress, Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...favourites — early death. v. BYHON— Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 102. Also Don Juan. Canto IV. St. 12. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...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 Andrews - 1896 - 316 pages
...finely expressed by Byron in the lines that introduce his picture of the Greece of his day : — " 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... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
...never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue." RUSKIN. The Stones of Venice, Infidelitas, § 99. " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress." BYRON. The Giaour. " He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture... | |
 | 1897 - 308 pages
...-JCH A man is never too old to learn. — Middleton. Mayor of Queenborough (Simon), Act V., Sc. I. He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress. — Byron. The Giaour. It is an error to suppose that a man belongs... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 478 pages
...There Flora all withered reposes, And mourns o'er thine absence with me. GREECE From 'The Giaour ' HE WHO hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day...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... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 614 pages
...akin to rhetoric. In discussing him I once quoted the exquisite passage in " The Giaour " beginning, " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled," comparing Greece to the dead man in the moment after death. Your father admitted its beauty, but said... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 604 pages
...akin to rhetoric. In discussing him I once quoted the exquisite passage in " The Giaour " beginning, " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled," comparing Greece to the dead man in the moment after death. Your father admitted its beauty, but said... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 596 pages
...akin to rhetoric. In discussing him I once quoted the exquisite passage in "The Giaour" beginning, " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled," comparing Greece to the dead man in the moment after death. Your father admitted its beauty, but said... | |
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