 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...Health on the other, thou fallest, an unwieldy and bloated pageant, to the ground GREECE. — Byron; 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... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - 1832 - 572 pages
...deeply affecting, but not without its consolation to the friends of the departed. He, who hath hent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled; Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept those lines where heauty lingers: And mark'd the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there:... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...or fast, The tie which bound the first endures the last. [From The Giaour.] THE FIRST DAY OF DEATH. 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...50. THE BEAUTIFUL, BUT STILL AND MELANCHOLY ASPECT OF THE ONCE BUSY AND GLORIOUS SHORES OF GREECE. 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the 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 (Before decay's effacing fingers... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 pages
...grammarian's work, would be to suppose that Newton made the stars or Werner the mountains. GREECE. 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the 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 (Before decay's effacing fingers... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 384 pages
...freed inheritors of hell ; So soft the scene, so form'd for joy, So curst the 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, (Before Decay's effacing fingers... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pages
...little while after death, no perceptible alteration takes place in the organization of the body : — " Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers."* And it not unfrequently happens, that no post mortem examination, not even a microscopic inspection, could... | |
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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... 
