| Frank Jewett Mather - 1927 - 422 páginas
...of impersonation in poetry. Take the famous ode of William Collins : "How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall a while repair To dwell a weeping... | |
| Edmondstoune Duncan - 1927 - 634 páginas
...their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their [clay j And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell, a weeping hermit, there ! There are glees by B. Cooke and... | |
| Leroy E. Armstrong - 1916 - 408 páginas
...'76 HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE HOW sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blessed! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor conies, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair.... | |
| John Middleton Murry - 1922 - 272 páginas
...the rough-hewn originals of almost every line in the finished poem. ' How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest, When...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there.' At last, though with no added richness of perception, Collins had controlled his materials. The rhetoric... | |
| 1859 - 460 páginas
...fine verses of Collins, which we will take the liberty to insert : " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung j By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor conies, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that... | |
| 1915 - 772 páginas
...Vorbei und stets vorbei. Sieh auf ' Begrüsse da Die Geisterschar. PAIN. How sleep the Brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When...knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung. Here Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
| 1898 - 494 páginas
...beard The fullness of perfected manhood bore. ODE. THE SLEEPING BRAVE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...control, as in the perfectly wrought "Ode" written in the beginning of 1746: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
| Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 páginas
..."How sleep the brave," personified Honour and Freedom coexist naturally with other "forms unseen": By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there. Personification is thus a trope that elevates the natural world by seeing analogues to human life in... | |
| Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 páginas
...rest ULTIMATE By all their country's wishes blessed! MATTERS When Spring with dewy fingers cold 422 1 Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall...awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. WILLIAM COLLINS ENGLISH (1721-1759) Breathes there the man with soul so dead Breathes there the man with soul... | |
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