 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...artless tale relate, By night and lonely contemplation led To wander in the gloomy walks of fate : Hark ! how the sacred calm, that breathes around,...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...tale relate, By night and lonely contemplation led, To wander in the gloomy walks of fate ; JJark! how the sacred calm that breathes around, Bids every...cease; In still small accents whispering from the grouud, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. No more with reason and thyself at strife, Give anxious... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...artless tale relate, By night and lonely contemplation led To wander in the gloomy walks of fate : Hark ! how the sacred Calm, that breathes around,...cease; In still small accents whispering from the grbund, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. No more, with reason and thyself at strife, Give anxious... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
..." After the fire, a ttitt small voice," 1 Kings, xix. 12. And in a rejected stanza of the Elegy : " Hark how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In .ili 1 1 small accents whisp'ring from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace." W. The same... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1818 - 500 pages
...of Christian faith to that "building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." " Hark ! how the sacred calm, that breathes around, Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease, 1 u still small accent* whisp'ring from the ground! A grateful earnest of eternal peace." RNK For lii':... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark! how the sacred calm that breathes around, Bids every tierce tumultuous passion cease; In still small accents whispering...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'riug heap,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 pages
...Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark! how the sacred calm that breathes around, Bids every tierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...artless tale relate, By night and lonely contemplation led To wander in the gloomy walks of fate : Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around, Bids...cares and endless wishes room ; But through the cool sequesler'd vale of life Pursue the silent tenor of thy doom. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...contemplation led To wander in the gloomy walks of fate; Hark! how t1n- sacred calm, that breathes around, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. No more, with reason and thyself at strife, Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; Instill small accents whispering from the ground, Give... | |
 | William Benbow - Church of England - 1823 - 336 pages
...and the weary are at rest," again casting our eyes upon the lowly sod, where uttered with awe — , Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around, Bids...from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace. But alas, ' the wicked cease not from troubling' even when life is extinct, and the grave must be robbed... | |
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And thou who, mindful of the unhonour'd dead, Dost in these notes their artless tale relate, By night and lonely contemplation led To wander in the gloomy walks of fate, — Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every fierce tumultuous... 
