 | Frank H. Ellis - 2005 - Страниц: 244
...resign'd; Left the warm Precincts of the chearful Day, Nor cast one longing lingring Look behind? On some fond Breast the parting Soul relies, Some pious...Eye requires; Even from the Tomb the Voice of Nature cries, And buried Ashes glow with Social Fires. But who was there among the illiterate peasantry on... | |
 | Mathilde Skoie, Sonia Bjørnstad-Velázquez - 2006 - Страниц: 206
...concluding injunction to 'look behind, recalling Gray: For who to dumb I'orgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts...day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?' (Elegy, lines 85-8) It is while watching the boys playing football against the hawthorn that the poet... | |
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For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind? 
