Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, [141] Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,... Harper's First [-sixth] Reader - Página 315editado por - 1890Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Mufle, ffs on the other hand, the cascades thai: in many places throw themselves from the very summit Oown Forgetfulncss a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, I/ ft the warm precincts of the cheerful... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. •Between this and the preceding stanza, in Mr. Gray's first MS. of the Poem, were the four following... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
| Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 páginas
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd » The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned — Left the... | |
| 1833 - 244 páginas
...illustrations of the poet's fancy ; may we not in every country see — ' Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd muse, ' The place of fame and elegy supply...strews, ' That teach the rustic moralist to die.' ' The latter part of your quotation,' said Neville, ' is not so frequent ; in general the inscriptions... | |
| James Flamank - 1833 - 414 páginas
...excite a pleasing melancholy, in regard to the tenants of this quiet spot : — Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh, GRAV. If we climb the mountain, we behold a vast variety of scenery, from the base to the far distant... | |
| James Johnson - 1834 - 262 páginas
...villas, many a reader will be puzzled by the following verse of the poet : — " Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh!'1 Uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculptures ! Why, we shall have half an epic poem inscribed on... | |
| Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 páginas
...tenor of their way. .'». •;.• •• .. •. • • MY .••• i»i >• Yet even these bones, from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply :.....- .. . ,, And many a holy text around... | |
| Sir Jerom Murch - 1835 - 612 páginas
...and anxiety for the improvement of the living. v " Their names, their years spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." The origin and exact age of the society at Frenchay are involved in uncertainty. My earliest information... | |
| Moses Severance - 1835 - 314 páginas
...Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd mn« The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy...she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 22. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned — ,'g . '"•eft... | |
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