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, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse - Página 372editado por - 1926 - 727 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 páginas
...passing tribute x>fa sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse The place of faîne and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigii'd, S'ils n'ont pas des destins affronté la menace, Fait tonner au Sénat leur éloquente audace,... | |
| Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 páginas
...with the solemnity of these homes of the departed. " Their names, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, " The place of Fame and Elegy supply ; " And...strews, " That teach the rustic moralist to die." MIDDLETON BATH. 27 We do not indeed expect to find the poetry of a Gray on these simple tablets of... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 páginas
...e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being ere resign'd, Left the. warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling' ring look behind... | |
| William Scott - 1825 - 382 páginas
...still erected 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...being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day ; Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind r On some fond breast the parting soul relies... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 páginas
...sculpturedecked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 80 Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many...moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, 85 This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast... | |
| 1826 - 310 páginas
...ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail Memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing...being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 páginas
...shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the' unletter'd Muse, * The place of fame and elegy supply...forgetfulness a prey, -• ? This pleasing anxious being e'er resign 'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind... | |
| John Henry Druery - 1826 - 476 páginas
...humble mounds and pious inscriptions, beneath which the " rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. " " Their name their years spelt by th' unletter'd muse,...she strews, " That teach the rustic moralist to die. " The patronage of Somerleyton rectory is rested in the Rev. George Anguish, the incumbent to which... | |
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 páginas
...passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse The place of faîne and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she...a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, S'ils n'ont pas des destins affronté la menace, Fait tonner au Sénat leur éloquente audace, D'un... | |
| John Henry Druery - 1826 - 488 páginas
...which the " rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. " " Their name their years spelt by th' unktter'd muse, " The place of fame and elegy supply: " And...she strews, " That teach the rustic moralist to die. " The patronage of Somerleyton rectory is rested in the Rev. George Anguish, the incumbent to which... | |
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