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" Denied the charity of dust to spread O'er dust ! a charity their dogs enjoy. What could I do ? what succour ? what resource ? With pious sacrilege a grave I stole , With impious piety that grave I wrong'd : Short in my duty, coward in my grief! More like... "
The Life of Hannah More, with a Critical Review of Her Writings - Page 136
by William Shaw - 1802 - 208 pages
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 13

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pages
...resource? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole; With impious piety, that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty ; coward in my grief! More like her murderer, than friend, I crept, With soft-suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness, wAupcr'd my last sigh. I wkisper'd what...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Watts, A. Philips ...

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 pages
...resource? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave'I wrong'd ; Short in my duty ; coward in my grief ! More like her murderer, than friend, 1 crept, With soft-suspended step, and muffled deep in midnight darknee^u'Ai^ci'J my last si^h. I whispered...
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Night thoughts, and A paraphrase on part of the book of Job. With the life ...

Edward Young - 1812 - 814 pages
...Short in my duty, coward in my grief! More like her murderer than friend, I crept With soft-suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper'd what should echo through their realm Nor writ her name, whose tomb should pierce tt skies. Presumptuous fear! how durst...
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The poetical works of Edward Young. Collated with the best eds.: by T. Park

Edward Young - 1813 - 324 pages
...resource ? With pious sacrilege a grave I stole ; With impious piety that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty, coward in my grief! More like her murderer than friend, I crept With soft-suspended step, and, muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper'd what...
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The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts

Edward Young - 1813 - 380 pages
...resource? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty ; coward in my grief! More like her murderer, than friend, I crept, With soft-suspended step, and, muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper'd what...
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The complaint; or, Night thoughts, on life, death, and immortality ...

Edward Young - 1815 - 332 pages
...resource? With pious sacrilege a grave I stole : With impious piety that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty ; coward in my grief ! More like her murderer,...suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper' d my last sigh. I whisper'd what should echo through their realms; Nor writ her name, whose...
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Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Edward Young - 1816 - 284 pages
...resource ? With pious sacrilege a grave I stole , With impious piety that grave I wrong'd : Short in my duty, coward in my grief! More like her murderer...whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper'd what should echo through their realms : Nor writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies. Presumptuous fear ! how...
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The Complaint: Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Edward Young - 1816 - 390 pages
...resource ? \Vith pious sacrilege a grave I stole j \Vlth impious piety that grave I wrongM ; Short in my duty ; coward in my grief ! More like her murderer, than friend, I crept, "With soft-suspended step ; and, muffled deep In midnight darkness, •ahisper'd my last sigh. J -aihisper'd...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 21

1819 - 596 pages
...dogs enjoy. What could I do? what succour? what resource ? With pious sacrilege a grave I stole, — More like her murderer than friend, I crept With soft...suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness whispered my last sigh. It is not, however, generally known that the French have published a print...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 21

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pages
...dogs enjoy. What could I do? what succour? what resource ? With pious sacrilege a grave I stole, — , More like her murderer than friend, I crept With soft...suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness whispered my last sigh. It is not, however, generally known that the French have published a print...
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