| Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 360 pages
...marked. Let the following sentences then be read with a conspicuously plaintive expression. My mother, when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I ehed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son ? Wretch, even then, life's journey just begun. Perhaps... | |
| Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 pages
...fifty years afterwards, on the receipt of her portrait from a relation in Norfolk : — " My mother 1 when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou...journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss : Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ! I heard the bell tolled on thy burial... | |
| Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream that thou art she. ' My mother ! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou...Journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss : Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ! I heard the bell tolled on thy burial... | |
| Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream, that thou art she. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...mother ! when I learn'd that thou want dead, Say, wast then conscious of the t< - ar« I shed ? Hover d thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thce slow away, And, turning... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1835 - 328 pages
...for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream that thou art she. My mother ! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou...son, Wretch, even then, life's journey just begun 1 Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; . Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss —... | |
| Religion - 1835 - 440 pages
...fifty years afterwards, on the receipt of her portrait from a relation in Norfolk :— " My mother ! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou...Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even men, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss: Perhaps a tear, if souls... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...lines on his mother's picture, there is the following pathetic remark : My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun 1 In dwelling... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 480 pages
...events prolonged the impression of this regret to more considerate years. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? I heard the bells toll'd on thy burial day ; I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ; And, turning... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 446 pages
...lines on his mother's picture, there is the following pathetic remark : My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? In dwelling... | |
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