 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...stray — Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'U, Implores the passing tribute ot a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...proteet Some frail memorial still ereeted nigh, With uneouth rhymes and shapeless seulpture deek'd ursting of the storm : a pile I His voiee eomes forth, like eeho from her eell ; To swell the temp plaee of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teaeh the rustie moralist... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1825 - 826 pages
...being permitted to protect and distinguish the spot where their benefactor reposed ; " That, ev'n his bones from insult to protect,' Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth rhiraes and shapeless sculpture deckt, Might claim the passing tribute of a sigh.'' 1063] They began... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life 75 They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, Ver. 73. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.] VARIATION. " The thoughtless world to majesty... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenoxir of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...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 she strews,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester' d vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones, from insult to protect, Some...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 she strews, That... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some...deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...ingenuous Shame; Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame! Yet, even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by the unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...that covers it. 'Tis the last tribute v/hich the humblest pay to the most humble. " Yet e'en those bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...sculpture deck'd; Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." 1 The stranger who in days to come, shall visit our shore, will exclaim, show me the statue of your... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...stray ; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse.... | |
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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 resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... 
