For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes... Miscellaneous Poems and Translations - Page 128edited by - 1722 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1717 - 468 pages
...thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domeftic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn 'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourn'd... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...Plcas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier.' By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 5 r By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign...mourn'd ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, 55 Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 240 pages
...Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, ox grac'd thy mournful bier: By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 5 1 By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign...mourn'd ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, 55 Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier, By foreign Tiands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 51 By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave ad*rn'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourrTd ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear,... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...lamentable fate; No friend's complaint, no kind domeftic tear, * Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier ; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were...compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By Grangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourn M ! The force of the repetition of the fignificant epithet... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...bier, By foreign hands thy dying eyes were ctes'd, 51 By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'cl, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By ftrangers...mourn'd ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, 55 Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1760 - 316 pages
...Pleas'd thy pale ghoft,or grac'd thy mournful bier. By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 51 By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign...grave adorn'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourn 'd ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, 55 Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1760 - 314 pages
...Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier. By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 51 By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By ftrangers honour' d, and by ftrangers mourn 'd ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, 55 Grieve for an... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pages
...lamentable fate ; No friend's complaint, no kind domeftic tear *, Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or grac'd thy mournful bier ; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were...adorn'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and by ftrangers mourn'd ! The force of the repetition of the fignificant epithet foreign^ need not be pointed out to any reader... | |
| John Newbery - 1762 - 292 pages
...thy rites unpaid ? No friends complaint, no kind domeftic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghoft, or.grac'd thy mournful bier ; By foreign hands thy dying eyes were...humble grave adorn'd, By ftrangers honour'd, and by Grangers mourn' d ! What tho' no friends in fable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn... | |
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