 | 1816 - 600 pagina’s
...proud pre-eminence, Long shall we seek his likeness — long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man,...touches him, is sure to write so as to touch us. He fci-ls most powerfully, and has opinions as well as an experience of his own. His character therefore... | |
 | 1816 - 1052 pagina’s
...proud pre-eminence. Long shall we seek his likeness — long, in vain. And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan. LIVES • Foi. — Pit — Bitrk«. Poetry. LIS'ES Competed on hearing that WALTER ScoTTi Eíq. Jad... | |
 | 1816 - 572 pagina’s
...lines unfortunately depend on a metaphor which wants effect and attraction because it wants novelty : ' Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die in moulding Sheridan !' If lovers and mourners may be credited, Nature has so often broken the moulds in which she has cast... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pagina’s
...proud pre-eminence, Long shall we seek his likeness— lon» in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die— in moulding Sheridan ! THE EMD. Printed by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey. 255 THE FOLLOWING . nn BOOKS, ADAPTED TO THE... | |
 | 1817 - 368 pagina’s
...of, but in the language of adulation, as one of the rarest specimens of humanity. We are to sigh " That Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan." Yes ; he was one of those thirty thousand deities to which modern idolatry has allotted an apotlitusis... | |
 | John Watkins - 1818 - 572 pagina’s
...country church-yards: Long shall. we seek his likeness — long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding SHERIDAN ! Hyperbolical nonsense like this is any thing but praise ; and the reader who had no other knowledge... | |
 | 1820 - 442 pagina’s
...proud pre-eminence, Long shall we seek his likeness — long, in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such Man, And broke the die— in moulding SHERIDAN ! / •. The following singular notice lately appeared on the door of a Roman Catholic Chapel in the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 306 pagina’s
...proud pre-eminence, Long shall we seek his likeness— long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan ! NOTES MONODY ON THE DEATH OF SHERIDAN. Note 1, page 52, line 27. When the loud cry-of trampled Hindoatan.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pagina’s
...proud pre-eminence, Long shall we seek his likeness—long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die—in moulding Sheridan! NOTES. Note 1, page 123, line 3. When the loud cry of trampled Hindoitan.... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 476 pagina’s
...proud pre-eminence ; Long shall we seek his likeness — long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die— in moulding SHERIDAN !" Such is the extravagance of the last two lines, and their forced connexion, if they can be said... | |
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While Eloquence, Wit. Poesy, and Mirth, That humbler Harmonist of care on Earth, Survive within our souls — while lives our sense Of pride in Merit's proud pre-eminence, Long shall we seek his likeness, long in vain, And turn to all of him which may... 
