 | Thomas Hodgskin - 1820 - 944 pages
...the colours just beginning to fade, was shewn to the surrounding spectators. She was in the stage, " Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers." And " Hers was the loveliness of death, That parts not quite with parting breath ;" and neatly dressed... | |
 | 1834 - 580 pages
...fragment, " The Giaour :"— " 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...fix'd, yet tender, traits that streak ] The languor of the pallid cheek ; So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, — The first, last look, by death reveal'd."... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 486 pages
...tyrants that destroy ! 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,...fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak... | |
 | 1872 - 1200 pages
...vol. i, p. 401. " Ha who hath beat him o'er the dead. Ere the first day of death is fled ; . , , , Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines...fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, An' 1 —but for that sad uhrouJed eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 290 pages
...tyrants that destroy ! 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,...fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 468 pages
...bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled ; The first dark day of nothingness, 70 The last of danger and distress ; (Before Decay's...angelic air — The rapture of repose that's there— 15 The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...tyrants that destroy ! 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,...angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 318 pages
...tyrants that destroy ! 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,...mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, And fix'd yet tender traits that streak The langour of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded... | |
 | George Burges - 1824 - 150 pages
...lines where beauty lingers,) * Hughes's Address to the People of England in the cause of the Greeks. And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose...fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And—but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now, And... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 914 pages
...tyrants that destroy ! 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,...mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that 's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but... | |
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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... 
