 ... breathe The lake is smooth and clear beneath, Where once again the spangled show Descends to meet our eyes below. The grounds which on the right aspire, In dimness from the view retire : The left presents a place of graves, Whose wall the silent water...  The Poetical Works - Page 93by Thomas Parnell - 1866 - 185 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Parnell - 1726 - 276 pages
...Night. There pafs with melancholy State, By all the folemn Heaps of Fate, And think, as foftly-fad you tread Above the venerable Dead, Time was, like thee they Life poffeft, And Time Jhall he, that thoujhalt Reft. Thofe Graves with bending Ofier bound, That namelefs... | |
 | Thomas Parnell - 1767 - 250 pages
...night, There pafs with melancholy ftate, By all the folemn heaps of fate, And think, as foftly-fad you tread Above the venerable dead, " Time was, like thee they life poffeft, " And time fhall be, that thou malt reft. Thofe graves with bending ofier bound, That namelefs... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English essays - 1767 - 274 pages
...night. There pafs, with melancholy ftate, By all the folemn heaps of fate, And think, as, foftly-fad, you tread Above the venerable dead, " Time was, like thee they life pofleft, And time fhall be, that thou malt reft." Thofe graves, with bending ofier bound, That, namelefs,... | |
 | English poetry - 1770 - 268 pages
...night. There pafs with melancholy ftate, By all the folemn heaps of fate, And think, as foftly-fad you tread Above the venerable dead, Time was, like thee they life poffefr, And time mall be, that thou fhalt reft. Thofe graves, with bending ofier bound, That namelels... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 428 pages
...night. There There pafs with melonchaly ftate, By all the folemn heaps of fate, And think, as foftly-lad you tread Above the venerable dead, Time was, like thee they life pojeJl,. Attd time Jlall be, that.thoujhalt n./... Thofe with bending ofier bound, That namelefs heave... | |
 | English poetry - 1782 - 518 pages
...night; There pafs, with melancholy ftate, By all the folemn heaps of fate, And think, as foftly-fad you tread Above the venerable dead, ' Time was, like thee, they life poflefs'd, • And time mall be, that thou fhalt reft.' Thofe graves with bending ofier bound, That... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1785 - 568 pages
...night. There pafs with'melancholy ftate, By all the folemn heaps of fate ; And think, as foftly-fad you tread Above the venerable dead, Time was, like thee they life pofleft, And time fhall be, that thou fhalt reft, Thofe graves, with bending ofier bound, That namelefs... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 334 pages
...of night. There pafs with melancholy ftate By all the folemn heaps of fate, And think, as foftly-fad you tread Above the venerable dead, Time 'was, like thee, they life fojjeft, And time ft all be, that thou Jha.lt reft. Thofe with bending ofier bound, That namelefs heave... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 220 pages
...night. There pafs, with melancholy ftate, By all the folmen heaps of f.ite ; And think, as foftly fad you tread " Above the venerable dead, " Time was, like thee they life pafleft, s' And time fhall be that thou fhalt reft." Thofe graves, with bending ozier bound, That namelefe... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...presen's a "!ace of graves, Whose walls the silent water laves. That steeple guides thy doubtful sight Among the livid gleams of night. There pass with melancholy...state, By all the solemn heaps of fate, And think as softly sad you tread Above the venerable dead, Time tvas, like thee they life fastest, And time shall... | |
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