 With uncouth rhymes and shapeless 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 a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist...  Chambers's national reading-books - Стр. 282авторы: Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - Страниц: 264
...of 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...nigh, With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture, deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by the unletter'd Muse,... | |
 | 1828 - Страниц: 608
...sculpture declc'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigb. " Their names, their yearn, spelt by lh' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply. And many a holy text around she strews, To teach the rustic moral M to die.** Our. THROUGH whatever medium we regard death, never does it more... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - Страниц: 308
...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...nigh ; With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd; Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." 1 The stranger who in days to come, shall visit our... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - Страниц: 290
...ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these...sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelled by the unlettered muse The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - Страниц: 484
...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'd Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - Страниц: 844
...ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They sioned to entertain strangers— for the rest musí Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Mufle, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - Страниц: 516
...wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. •Between this and the preceding stanza, in Mr. Gray's... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1839 - Страниц: 320
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the apple-women's stalls away ! Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh ; With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, He never lets the children play thereby. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - Страниц: 256
...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'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse,... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - Страниц: 312
...Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...sculpture 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... | |
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