 How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is...  Annual Register - Page 217edited by - 1768Full view - About this book
 | British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pages
...blefs'd 1 When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there mall drefs a fweeter fod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unfeen their dirge is fung : Then Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To blefs the turf that wraps their... | |
 | History - 1800 - 594 pages
...hleft ! When fpring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallo w'd mold, She there (hall drefs a fweeter fod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod, By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unfeen their dirge is fung : There honour comes a pilgrim grey, To blefs the turf that wraps iheir... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there (hall drefs a fwecter fod, 'f han Fancy's feet have ever trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unfeen their dirge is fung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grty. To blefä the turf that wraps their... | |
 | History - 1800 - 596 pages
...0/Taviftock, HOW fleep the brave, who fink to reft, With all their country's wiihes bleft J When fpring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there mall drefs a fweeter fod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 600 pages
...B/rTaviftock. HOW fleep the brave, who fink to reft, With all their country's wimes bleft ,' When fpring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there ftiall drefs a fweeter fod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ;... | |
 | Richard Warner - Bath (England) - 1801 - 362 pages
...with dewy fingers cold, " Returns to deck their hallowed mould, " She then shall dress a sweeter sod " Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. " By fairy hands their knell is rung ; " By forms unseen their dirge is sung; " There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, " To bless the turf that wraps their... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their... | |
 | English literature - 1801 - 536 pages
...PORTRAIT.) How deep the brave, who fink to reft j By all their country's wiflus blelt ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there (hall drefs a 1'weeter ibd Than FANCY'S feet have ever trod. By lairy hands their knell is rung ; By... | |
 | William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 198 pages
...DCC XLVI. JH.OW sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By... | |
 | William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 206 pages
...YEAR M DCC XLVI. sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. . By Fairy hands their knell is rung,... | |
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