 | English poetry - 1821 - 259 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 134 pages
...sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet 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 tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 807 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, [deck'd, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | 1822
...feeling, as heing particularly applicahle to this character, " Yet e'en these hones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected nigh,...and shapeless sculpture decked. Implores the passing trihute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt hy the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 388 pages
...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 still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes, and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822
...sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet 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 tribute of a sigh. Their name.their years,spelt by the'unletter'd Muse,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 346 pages
...sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet 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 tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd Muse,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 372 pages
...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 still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletterM muse,... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected 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 The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | William Oxberry - Theater - 1824 - 379 pages
...protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhimes and shapeless sculpture deck'd Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years spelt by th' unjetter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
| |