 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet c'en these bones from insuit to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck' d Implores the passing tribute x>fa sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to forlorn, Though I unpitied. League with you I seek, And mutual amity, so strait, so close, deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettcr'd Muse,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour 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' 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 th' unletter'd Muse, The plaee of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...sequester'd 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 th' unletter'd Muse,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...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 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 - Elocution - 1827 - 412 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,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...sequester'd 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 th' unletter'd muse,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...sequester' d 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,... | |
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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. 
